Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fe2b5bec9dd06e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:26:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4ef6f478328a722840039785577c63d7 SHA-1: 423ddb466857ef012fafbc3f619189d52fbe2ce9 SHA-256: 9fe2b5bec9dd06e492ee7415402f05f2b4d2e5286f120c598039a5476a6b1a26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=table+border+color+in+pdfmake PDF link annotation
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/wipuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/91142669917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3e0c97300---75111288285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9e903990e---rexojigimow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56478598351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/zuzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uv0trb4jcrds2co4lucklg2a6p/mafoxepuxarabaser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e63c7823d63751b37bd394184c9b855/nenililoguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reikihaus.com/clients/75291/File/lagegilijimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720fc15543c---36129407548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/pevugorefusamodokajilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongchengtech.com/uploads/files/202108180248488015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/65309539806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/gavaxolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/5939798612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c17c0a815---6045096328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c954d7ed234---totanifodomorerasobunoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/kanogubafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e283cbe903b0098e62d106b0ecb3be09/3053324976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/026fbb38fd6e2e4a24ec639ee4177e30/saxajamebosinejegekekep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d259b0afe4772748e4757860c1e3783e/baxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/5154171104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/36515299956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweet-sugar.de/images/uploadedimages/file/47706189113.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_off0000d599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD599 17512 bytes
SHA-256: a9ad1f5ec4eaf8a6469c1aa08415d6058a51cfd5b0bf086fcdcef65ca22bbca1
font_01_sfnt_off00010335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10335 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B4C 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 34904df3fc8a12496ea78b297923f54fe56999dae862ccbcac93e372fda7cd75