Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9f460a1c8052d06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:19:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9849c3d4fd7b92ee68b57d67a4e97db4 SHA-1: f76e6436a2060b354650a12231e72c48a427bff9 SHA-256: d9f460a1c8052d0678f82c0810960e7f259a7760817fcf95282d68620563b2f2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=missing+number+worksheet+for+ukg PDF link annotation
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3d64d77a3---54203778012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/zikago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/gigexilabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/betotukoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.com/upload/userfiles/file///85018336382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b5d07e3e9---lefer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5c7a372dd08e06d3238af743970dccd/50518864725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac92d66ec4b---fosomedadasubaligotubotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4q5avrp9fc54dtu8pc10tsa9c/vononuvupesozeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tolidumaxapefeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/radedozinowanosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc9d8c11d5---81060037902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynhuagiasi.com/Images_upload/files/7051256046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/84155998370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/22032478100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/sujokafilorinonimukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao3l6pigfk6q76ueslebdbpa7c/71808474131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/3829754254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/15236411394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/fedonodomevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs71.com/clients/d/d9/d9c6bfbc4bbdd207836d30c01fe5869c/File/6961970274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32a6e01ada---mugijejoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3um87gnudnbhhkhg2sbjjkk5bs/dubisalunuxipizujubinud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents/files/wojugosejoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970fchs50thclassreunion.com/clients/1/19/19770213778af891f1b13fa25f964f50/File/wasixafekuxozegalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/24360120676.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_off0000dba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA3 17808 bytes
SHA-256: aa32227dbc5a2fe134b62e9222d5afd2915761527e9992c5288512ba6dce227a
font_01_sfnt_off000109e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E5 10864 bytes
SHA-256: db07cdcbbe08ec866fdf20233e2b67fb3ff5e0084ad3b4b550dd97f9329323c5
font_02_sfnt_off000122e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1