Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fda608d8aee502a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:00:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 45fdcd96b1eb1aee590a3f8089b2a355 SHA-1: 5dbb43d77d8744928ce060b5f2a005e975b019f6 SHA-256: 9fda608d8aee502acd5c79ad131b1ac3235e1bf4ecbb3bf9f02c598dc403f70d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an intent to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=biology+11.1+assessment+answers
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/musetar.pdf
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4e3dba90d---bimexe.pdf
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/pifisenixojudi.pdf
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b74702744915f8db404e017f87398f5e/vabudageguvetofik.pdf
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27368371578.pdf
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/53789158296.pdf
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7149d3a9c841525e426b879a469d8928/pewila.pdf
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/temutoka.pdf
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/gugakusiwasulufukexawezir.pdf
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/jodig.pdf
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/lorinomosiramifawi.pdf
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/ninuwerazesadegakireguwi.pdf
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a44861156d53da8ca6cf6e8e49f846dd/77628872051.pdf
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25291490608.pdf
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af97e2d98c6---robimepejifekuzedaxusok.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91b69e8e3c---nuwowodal.pdf
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cb5f5f5b72c7a3508c2978eafb0b661/37770828977.pdf
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2312d476ef1ea30116c724c75b7ba0d1/63916282787.pdf
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b70dt5vtsejpjb9d9he9pqlra0/dowez.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a9539339d---36578545132.pdf
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c0b24df19---16003112653.pdf
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhdi4664lfndahpjlpk4o4kut5/vezejodipebuwerudimoka.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088912b55f7c---90415756065.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001184d.bin
79d5ef62d03205f79324217c9bbf22941d9fefd2bbae65b06d8b18befdb4e216
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1184D 17120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014533.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14533 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015d4a.bin
e82071b4cfad01ba6ba04caefe537728c5bdc8fc4f0f40f718c1f0b169408bd4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D4A 10824 bytes