Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c920b9cfcf963e61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:14:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 277441d8850da4efe1c6fc143e87fb15 SHA-1: bd2fdac712f30581a0ddc62b22ef0f15ea37b03d SHA-256: c920b9cfcf963e61a5e7405c9ab83f56f818700ce10f40821a939054ca86775d
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 document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what%27s+so+amazing+about+grace+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98cc4bb9060ba753619bf5d93c5176a7/3356808630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monthclean.com/uploads/files/202108182226343350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161051553bb193---94494903832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/repexexotuburozesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/b08090bcd0467460b331b5295f887418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/38394183406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phm.vn/upload/files/90011720169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3875f72b1b43f8ae62128180e8159b57/nunepazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a449b27978---rixekowarexubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4054l6eul8a9mu3rlmqoq4c5e5/60676021066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0ktoj94n1mqpb217imhhj5ufo/27497792254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tour-paris-guide.com/cite_imgs/file/maletilazijif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/8116185577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab0181d0f11f735eddb21e1c43801c1/75916000533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f045ca7a0---25318247070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28df11e9f5---nalelela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/funoxokazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58190c135cd589e95394ce2f4a199793/gazakuzojutosavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c440029f10---vujame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb61b9347c454efc852f9114e3ea4cac/wamademerufotoziramujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d51ln29bvbu3lj04moq4fanom1/bakudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4617cd0f47b035bd7e5670841e15a0fa/kosogenevomurivebivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tve220mn2q6mca27vguq844i5/49085023673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aac6ef7f5---44740183521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ea9023ccb8---81023050772.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD466 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 4a54821e8e13bae94bd296aa3de7b8c3f5e4af08d06517486ebd122d4b4ed4ed
font_02_sfnt_off00010203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10203 2192 bytes
SHA-256: e64fcd345705f7b09383ea89d03cad7d7aa2fccf1ec4e02aafc081ae9bb5575c
font_03_sfnt_off00010bdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDD 11348 bytes
SHA-256: 402db35d39cae4f24fba3bbbe7ba53cf10fdccd9ba765f683768f31f23d1bbc5