Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9ce950b1edeb89b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:47:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 88b574b4d67a90aa24907b842c678180 SHA-1: d491fb79bf066a31f0e70f6d7eefff3f50b43266 SHA-256: d9ce950b1edeb89b6f7672c0b571498e8a730da305b3f0b23c72d289b52c97a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cardinals+schedule+2019+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba253a0072839b28e5c6d73bc3609751/72011573137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pegukafelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investkwik.com/userfiles/file/rogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb8d7b0e6f---73315475207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/foxudemiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/63350204335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d697e97317ce0b55a8132888c53e297f/15928191820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakitovedigidenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2020kellyfamilyreunion.com/clients/1/1c/1c0e63424c3b5e20a3d858f77c59864f/File/kesukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/97048199531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca331787b7---zizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/dituzokabubagokelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redskap.ru/userfiles/file/46169302301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/pazapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb6c176f31502bb5e85d9695ac15131e/kuwevanurekubeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1886981d52---fometimujafiraweligedivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abb0b511acedd0a5086f514890d83005/44921919584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28656289379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161122c5b541a2---loloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songuryazilim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fagudivagoxotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vino-charlie.cz/userfiles/file/tofagubebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitymattressfactory.com/admin/userfiles/file/jebilijigigatibunekopafis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53959951040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanhoaphat.vn/userfiles/file/22617631644.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_off000107af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011fc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC6 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 84540d02dd7ba6945ad368c3d552f377d6e8dee55fa344f0117d58755741a116
font_02_sfnt_off00013997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13997 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 76be8017eeb29a253384776f31d47286e8624c6dc1777bc13253d831e9dc0595