Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9e6a72c19ea1191…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:14:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7075c227fc0be968778e6bb7db19290c SHA-1: e44be8c9240f06efb7343d072428d437e3915981 SHA-256: d9e6a72c19ea1191e69eb091732638aeabd88426de641453c05d82c28da03b50
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 file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which are often used to host phishing pages or distribute further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rental+car+agreement+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2604b3eac63dc651240a59c8a3608354/79004066303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829bc9d502b---22667743834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d80d9cc173b26dd81f2f843ab53006e2/safatamapowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artiguardia.pl/userfiles/file/pagave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cc1fa6763---71868179961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4be711b8e---38069036659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/werasedawezuvuwizifoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/76886579727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf2c3e50b6---fufemukub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73a504d03f---zovunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/sipovimoverawuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/5232182469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtdsbinhthuan.vn/public/uploads/userfiles/file/68161292748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/vojevanogajojepogobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/10491944639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ff46687622a75105a8a18e26ff0277b/dapafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a530dc2cabb---dagobidegekiletaroxisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f87a71c9548---44271232548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26fug2uuit61p3org1kg9mcund/xekapupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/31512227970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwrapcarspa.com/upload/files/9362470230.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_off0000d5da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5DA 17040 bytes
SHA-256: b57a86b7c8f7f9287f08d4edffbe3a016766f8ae69912d8315d0df4c06ec84c4
font_01_sfnt_off000101fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101FC 10628 bytes
SHA-256: bfe6d9df63b7a3d9d3c139b2e990b85a84bad07238cc9cb86d1c978c10303052
font_02_sfnt_off00011a19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1