Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fa7d35edcea4133…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:00:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 860639aec3af842ebd9491e2a88596b9 SHA-1: e537b4352332eda5814f82464e53f1a68370e600 SHA-256: 9fa7d35edcea4133af21f6643af56003dd8542652a11021d2e5644ee2bafc39d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure is a common tactic for initial access.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anybody+can+dance+movie+songs PDF link annotation
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/49369825831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/8324106065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunianco.com/other_files/File/juxafono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70ef8f74b8cf5e1f4fb26e090e798f68/7804319255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/6395697123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gasesak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04bc38e4fb---83804200407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa27936bd80a6d7ad102855ce31c2d6d/dexigopavarifito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fae7261ebf---57743031741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/vitibivibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbk82ctgv1g3hsjir05qirfe97/18032663454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gs5bp43sqka3csmj80re927vc/bagoxatojizelazegipisilab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmed.vn/upload/files/muremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d73402a9a743296c01ee4978487999e4/popuwujimulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/54560518479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919f04e099f---9394013534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/benafedigukixixudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denkobarbell.com/_upload/files/15404173319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/siwanigesuzekaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/5882973678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/49277409087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0feeed22ad69792af6f3100b425ae25a/93020213492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremania.net/img_pagine/file/wazusefadolukakabixado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubitanduk.com/contents//files/pekitilogetesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bd0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD0F 16000 bytes
SHA-256: 0e949be9dfa6772c5be0453adca3159f7306c2ff6e08b91688304e02eca72301
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5EA 10772 bytes
SHA-256: e92bb000a5e66500c679b140160b09ec8bd442a5b03710511325d494d96cfeda
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1