Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9df772d28c2e72d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:20:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c4d3deaea4cb57e9c2487889d170b340 SHA-1: 916f742de535e6f4d4491a7a781b2442ad2ad5b2 SHA-256: c9df772d28c2e72da44b1e331e7859fe98a01ad7f94e6f3e1d7f200ce042da7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=immunofluorescence+directe+principe+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://simonkuehner.de/gfx/userfiles/files/20369042191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14265150b31502f4a1cb641db442ed4b/95507699066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e68momo.com/shopadmin/upload/files/76671249544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29ac2c1852---84654251194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vkgnassociates.com/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/432972751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/793f8baa5ea628d0de129b72bcbedcb5/ruviwajexewizirebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc16364073---64410139210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f136174d9f195ff8600437048069ef85/legajopiwopuwujevevirutap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettomontanino.eu/userfiles/files/girafamefasezezotalopeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2c3399t3l882bkiqa917ndqv2/subifawipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/butat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d122fe99d1---rufojefamodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daco1h0cqceb2ldnm82q76jdp0/11779442490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxsolar.com/d/files/karozinozojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/496e84cb5467a7a41981aa9ccb11b537/rabufukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d58eb8bbb84427b5909e7ddda4d49c72/57094218998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/letesafewagide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwrapcarspa.com/upload/files/nofexowufivabizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43c09d3181---xubifaxevonogegemokotepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hargrovefamilyreunions.com/clients/16272/File/57423806936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608678c69228f---73987193728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bc2138f49---mimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/saletemizosetelasovolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f94fd0a290---46523023616.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_off0000d412.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD412 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC29 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 80caca722e6e9302ac69e7273b736e948956ad152f2f73ffde5eee0895885cff
font_02_sfnt_off0001048d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1048D 17220 bytes
SHA-256: e27782bb3131480f5d6934bf11eef725e3b305c14e3d15c41b45dd4c7af692a8