Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9acdd232efce49e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-29 18:02:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 13cb860cc5553a44a569296e095b8ec7 SHA-1: 5b166f9499e5c06054e547c649a894a15b96f01e SHA-256: d9acdd232efce49e148c67bcb10b27f278c958e493b5fd1f6bfe8b1409458be5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely for SEO spam or to distribute further malware. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics confirms this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b37a23ab4eaa8e7fee0d954f04ee71e4/88705625169.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/35964729260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092339fb0001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/ribadox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3625431698---sajonenuwiguridid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0601/06342b6aeddf5ada99fd88ee1a240f67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjo2bh7dpa19ud6j9e5ck88en2/kukafogumurajamudozokagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anipetkingdom.com/webroot/img/files/40359105437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sipifejaxepojeposijupitop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/bojiretimorogumaxusuxukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01c010c56575a3beef8a54987ca4863a/kujevetotakimikoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/89608484192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1034e1fea---77274601529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc31463ba344fa89663821d5661db63c/bagakarufufekewapudiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/20416094424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/47833289273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/belukunigisarafifatuwepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/dimivurizipajena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/61466133035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kontiko.com/ktkweb3/images/upload/files/74247323838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brnc85.com/clients/878796/File/26016307739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58475cf76f6abce2d0b7ae0c4d2afe84/98445637063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bc783d26e---parivatirezidewusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=argumentative+writing+samples+middle+schoolPDF 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_off0000ee6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001067d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067D 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 03cb414024bd5a61a6218ebf7488189cd8ffc9305c5b4cde3f4784b3d572f023
font_02_sfnt_off00013416.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13416 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 21c9640ca3025b818a4e4f804e08b361bb5629e60ed189cd4a70d54f4716515e