Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9f782583c9e1425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2c7017e8aaf823a9c5fea2ae0e72d0e7 SHA-1: 9ce326f0858be5a19cef04915e42f52a21aaa697 SHA-256: c9f782583c9e1425b83843d45996233af0b6e66561e1ceddb74ce16a15e0e316
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, including WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures or downloaders for additional malicious payloads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=guitarra+washburn+x+series+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/94580529265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snoman.mb.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tigamutirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/rexexejatowesazame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/52416062144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d1c6536d0---36254358771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b99cdac81c02ed3219ef9f9fab26a5f/71976188862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/57516765887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkert.hu/files/file/31841734498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/zexovefuromikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d479d6d2bc---16228400278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/wifonuwezuvozuzebelugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfobchod.cz/foto/Image/file/4820816325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/luxivasurogonukib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafeau1ait.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeduzedemupoxafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e323f50df8ebf0c771bb5c5fa66e9b7/83671882404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109aa261ab16---borulebovijadinemonirari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210726032833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747ee0921e9---jibufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/tosamunavamesulugelovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61e598ff84254b65b97a1817205117b9/jefunekezirufopakewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupekheidri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33557038934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoreluxurylimos.com/userfiles/files/36830944414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezoalza.com/ckupload/files/8802373641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6dmh0pe0ujnvgi8lro9bkrcc2/52630341024.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_off0000d0df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F6 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 83777edee384b52c17eb440e8ef5fd02a2965d0777ba65530035aeed33b1e7a3
font_02_sfnt_off00010174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10174 18596 bytes
SHA-256: a29dffd18f3f2a80e171507daee58dee62e885d2df6e899fe7ae8203ef88815f