Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9a66e5931de0007…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:49:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0b965cc05edeeff3cc3cac95e1913e75 SHA-1: b5d74a04b8f15eadefc17efe83fbbc61b32f9b9b SHA-256: c9a66e5931de0007f7b749aac9c206b0365ecf51d37d595fdc2464788641d561
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://kelvista.lt/images/files/42931582430.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://soundspace.eu/Upload/file/81235563261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f96a9e4a96---jodujunexukufedejeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11e4c3cf88---kelefekewigolizapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vvk-wiedermann.at/userfiles/file/82834356761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taaltoetsvo.nl/userfiles/file/24881403665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d854e52f28ff7cdc16813691393e45e4/garelogufopegewaruwiremuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bad26ffa06feef37837f2fce284e881/jurenurutarudim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/bupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d74864ca9af18fef22e126895b9928d6/lenojekulinefabejugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificioilcavaliere.it/userfiles/files/mofalamimoliwekosononu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drnanemilk.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/46642746927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iue1du8ppq5dcjs28h98ceb7f9/31928408029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11258798058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbulbalbir.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kotoretixoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackhorsesc.pl/userfiles/file/sasupitologutimejajufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/xasabedapikuzotiteteli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861dec0f2fc---86710358636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/186ff993da592adf3b3059317df9dc7d/2124540192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113e70616b77---46578447059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161156f316fe80---47257974981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-8/file/93362043360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b49e7a3b90---20022898097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7523c139f289fc6a22440d70619d20c/mirokanorirege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gj1auaf85fla4ccipbdo6rdih6/pevuditopevizokubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-is.com/userfiles/file/rixitawetuxipogogurabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=intercultural+management+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2157a06354430904b549214dfe42087d/66647228438.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_off0000edef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEF 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 490c1881a672c54c913fe70c2901206c781182fc83f47ad92e9b2e8e5aca2abf
font_01_sfnt_off0001060c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1060C 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 68868c5242a226e1bbad89c2b35a5d0b5ddf5c0f5331c93be4c39fbab92fa947
font_02_sfnt_off00013446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13446 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1