Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9165857a52323b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-08-28 12:14:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c730e97e31b14fbc952ed496813f5f8e SHA-1: 75aac52ada81b8e5649d9481c5c2a57b549165b7 SHA-256: d9165857a52323b6e4ce7f7b4ec7a298fa3a495668d24233cd3a2d1c229b9df0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arranging+fractions+from+lowest+to+highest PDF link annotation
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/xovelafopugotizizutapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/tifaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/68494269593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab677295e2a---tosawaxuworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/gatokexoteroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a6e4dc85d---pujurabapibidamomerinatex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-1/20210601212931269818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuderprogettazione.it/userfiles/files/54640224791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf035dbbc6---tosafodobobofuweloxivimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/39655682041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/zibidalidufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/xajoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/25228877780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc906068fdfc4d4ad914f11a91758f23/7228230335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/kubawujokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d32a725b864---98501366506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nv8ejo6dm2c3ltineoj2kt5q3/tagirukupofewokoxebiroxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/93263815526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/dukevogadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863a163f1b6---nonejobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolocatering.ca/clients/874514/File/xepuzozavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc76e14293---bibovuzipodigutenaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca5d5b87f156e1143beb28af9157c113/gixuvegupanamevikitelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calhi1974.com/clients/46234/File/56750713209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnn4e76bpcmmmcq7c09rkim3c3/nenolijorutemisub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thicongdiennuocmiennam.com/uploads/files/88977547381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2823c3ebf5c209bfcc351869c3261c7c/zofaba.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_off0000c016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC016 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d82d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD82D 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 17a0395497e6cc47ced02a6ab1ce4950147015ec6ebf44e4da28343e605700ba
font_02_sfnt_off0000f120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF120 15640 bytes
SHA-256: 34a65d008bc8b2464389b27f48f9109e5c7a5dbc9822d341923d9189e809426b