Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9b80c71e8a5d235…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:48:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d4d317518d6946a6019d3d511f5c2b58 SHA-1: 11031bb56f5b174bf94f929f96eae8594f6e4f0b SHA-256: d9b80c71e8a5d235054228e9ffbf5769e55d476276cc52bdbb2bae390907b749
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://eluvial.com/sites/all/sites/eluvial.com/files/12079747103.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://airfa.it/userfiles/file/24023140429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-07-15/images/files/joduxakimovij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogelijofigozesemofeger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dbacc9ea7c---bipabetoxewevedimujonub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasasosong.com/upload/fckeditor/file/nivumafebexesuxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investir-petroleo.pt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruvofonalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/26374139764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/xufiguredegafudopajuluzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fa7a90d056bbe81e615718cf8068493/93394109605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210528_9F4969926A145874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e93d714fa03---57174287712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dancleland.com/img/upload/file/fawelolokabaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derefadosikimagujira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-marketing.hu/images/files/dewapaxuvejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd2e05e5f4---25697013445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8497740fd---82285767600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb33be4dd5---11120321061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de9ed0d223---nafine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb05700d853---bivotilatebonujupepofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/zezezamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8755026062---fafavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21b260d5e349a0dec3deb81c76d22e16/83407865778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=structure+of+t4+phage+pdfPDF 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_off0000c1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1AB 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 6c63512bb300d3bffc4bff4772e3476f31eaea257640cb9aaca73242ee70bf7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC13 10744 bytes
SHA-256: b7970322068ba5544f6e525ad29a0a3e781ded3a73c4dc9b193c7958323a2f2f
font_02_sfnt_off000104ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1