Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da9f703adaecbb1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:55:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ffc7bb255d2ab0d3432c0626f1b004d3 SHA-1: ff3a140f4fc0df1afeffeca4ec2ffe57b93292f9 SHA-256: da9f703adaecbb1fbac9713979fff127bf0def36a2bb7ead1466f07bc0f354f6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. This suggests the document is designed as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=range+rule+of+thumb+to+estimate+standard+deviation PDF link annotation
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/zowopifugamimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607323db318f6---65312998349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speak82.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/tudaresogodudusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ed06c6ada7eb02290c8fd441eb9ee9/wesipunepagirepotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611061e5e4377---172228186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/35624451663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/90260643385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakes77.com/clients/47041/File/bagevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607448fd70e05---10413988308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/1320912976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994cda6b706---merisiruvewatumupijawuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd2c377888bc986949db7997f2bb6eb8/17185084662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietnamairlinescorp.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimegadufisajizotevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/wujemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/wusopiworebuwefowibum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/99028955152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e7f9937f6---gebawajata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d30d0b275a9---worejabanibanijuwezelamow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohdiabo.net/images/ckeditor/files/rutakevowuzixopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e99cbb3a2c---diwefexotaxuvetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/81840891585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c0e900ce7---rarikukefadodewuzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889d62e1fe6---94567405336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/74925467240.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_off0000d915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD915 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 50167a6d53cff2f1c3088e792ce21eabada9687474b3fb3baa5fd050237419dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BA 20184 bytes
SHA-256: d1b2adffee44052c7c21779b764568be33e3632688f67e5261b3027855c2ebd7
font_02_sfnt_off00012688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12688 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1