Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9b669f7791ab2df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:09:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: aae0a55b8bb4c2d0d9075bc7e0ad09e2 SHA-1: 003de115ec7b2d8f663749cd9138ce4b1b938842 SHA-256: d9b669f7791ab2dfc6bb298e01d9543b5298fc114deee3947ff72842d02d5d59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to exploit users by presenting deceptive content and leading them to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/65929686603.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a788847732edb2e174859f3a7dece773/migegasaxosaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83873304287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c52824f828---karifedezajejiratosatema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/98942366326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cccc0b490de5763546e5426388ea69c/47695541816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c90316022e2---57115821647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3hcjvjo4uftkl9fucrrbiq1o3/fiwigiwakogexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/tupipoloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/lalotesiwozanajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124d4c30fa80---4539329135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad5db17409---75713680204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c53b4ab1c7---1349424543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/60204836106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ae2230c1e7---96880506452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/lugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/86797912994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersenergy.com/UserFiles/file/tiwumewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///84030752471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27290628210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/81777902243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ansys+book+pdf+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846a433a06b---68557857215.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_off0000d326.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD326 20164 bytes
SHA-256: eca72d1af9a048bff1f04456d0e3ed0cabce6717243f1218889bcbc906ccdd8c
font_01_sfnt_off000107f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001200d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200D 10480 bytes
SHA-256: c1ece564a06bbd6ce23db7cddb3d6d358998f95ac526b0062b036fcf9d8d74f5