Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f96e606c0c4fe85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:16:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 88a0b9680a8a538bf058aafea762618c SHA-1: 94baa9a57cfab0f5c4f252457dad462ae6bb559c SHA-256: 9f96e606c0c4fe85b67f9f2a579afd6cb1cef1853fa4f86b6ec1f26fbdf75f4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further indicating a non-legitimate purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://viermaalh.nl/Bottesteyn/Site/afbeeldingen/file/63409876754.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/93857907384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22686182391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba88b3c0f48---xesakewomusakafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aef55755e2a4217f7993e8ff6ddbebc2/9562238788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luvnchrlysenglishtoys.com/clients/861429/File/zudapefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95739659d7---91254219233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b62e8d3a59---62800125588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/xikirado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bee85cdfbde---jemose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/62634628420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7efnorvk47eqlk9eg97oabqg0p/seduvizoxetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--franzsischebulldoggen-lec.eu/userfiles/file/lipafimezumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103a1710f38a---41546228568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jemotekifivolapono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aabba061a6---3451540572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edd098e6bb28afaec63c2ef6ec7b76c7/gujetadosaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klc33r5p19thqjudkb3rfns30u/motasazikuxijibipegabivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37b2b04326599725e4b0b679687594fc/gukugipodipijezapovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607439fe3b1b2---84282541196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/sagisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a95ba9f74355034a9e50c9b63859cf07/48500872181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bunowokimifugegebikanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a84d9d7ae02a0a952fdf42cd15f43026/91680550957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/litupomomerunapupojevidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=limbah+industri+farmasi+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD531 18708 bytes
SHA-256: 489e5a1fbcd86ebd3cc114fa1ef446aa8bc7d9070d90f2bf16f6543252147264
font_01_sfnt_off00010529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10529 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D40 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 1504570e02e28bd91b3225a19e26412efd0bca9587329260f2c14b5cfde0bd62