Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9d87a6133c52efa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:21:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e4d5ae0197bdaa0ee2fcbbd9312d341e SHA-1: d3e66193614b3678e6392f2c5cd8024ba2872e75 SHA-256: c9d87a6133c52efa4a4508650c4ac0c24abfad41751032d49cab57e282708bd6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of multiple links to potentially malicious content suggests an attempt to distribute phishing pages or further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ee5451d13---podemavizozifafudojijimu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cz/upload/88646840891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1k7lmrt7ieph6ru5pm6av3k22/24792191501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melabo.com/upload/files/10528905755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/balov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printjet.pl/pliki_user/File/9028339154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075974f8c724---30345941338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/91626050756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6dkj7hv3hk395bpqtn8nko3i5/ruvalorixesalaxavituv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23b5ffacf184e0d8b5d52a642ec665bb/22153649038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/sileki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/96239899210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16232426582997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/tesazowidofuliwofake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/munadoduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/korowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5v93v9hk3ab1jt1v1v6qot3i5/jegixivitakazoxufivigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb9d4a96febbf3c14536974098f9d48c/tidenivaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnudu0c7qpdi0gfhb9lbnr5n7d/suvetewusimasebiliferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4e9cedf6eecdcdfaedbdedba98108b1/66049821320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/fokaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a63f644412a84eba4da90a5364dad5bf/48810408339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55069399115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2313f04ce3---xejozixafaxujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1eacd1a3b---nefafaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mrt+map+singapore+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off000135f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135F1 22116 bytes
SHA-256: f802f4c07fdf2d963f2e08e134f647f198145d6238e189f1bb85adece0863600
font_01_sfnt_off00016fbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FBE 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 9559078caf6253101cc04d1a18279fd82ce7f5166efd0fa5e717bbab67567350
font_02_sfnt_off0001885b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1885B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1