PDF malware analysis — malicious · e9c40c1c8f6162a7

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 22:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14

MD5: 7f81fd37795300393f1c1ec5b672fd3a SHA-1: 2fa02c6f8c6c9a800072a85ddb543e321200057b SHA-256: e9c40c1c8f6162a76cd4269973e906358dac8106bcc7b133aca4a28d238367d7

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further indicates a malicious intent to host and distribute further payloads.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=icse+class+9+biology+textbook+pdf PDF link annotation
- https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315958c338c---4478464643.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://lhdrum.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210908145717_OTcxMzE4NDk5Nzc=.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kaiyudachem.com/filespath/files/20210911052040.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://idcla.net/upload/files/18536618292.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://0225674989.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1861854380.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://canadapremiumlubes.com/survey/userfiles/files/32350694517.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/14114127300.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://thegoshow.net/userfiles/file/tugezitabegewasomobid.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cebcebdae1aff34c40f45724591ffd9/totisowux.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/210902201633153775cylz27fxft4a.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/naworem.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://dwornawodzie.pl/userfiles/file/95848627302.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133010726a10---12726947174.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/69413592582.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/kupavonunidomubelugasedug.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://tw-echen.com/uploads/files/202109090655062931.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://platypusspot.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91958340272.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://johnlillylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/14148497330.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://lonniestireandauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/limojomijojijagoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/87946151396.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62130294431.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906040318406420.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330e938a2e7---75365075846.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://juditphotography.com/picture/userfiles/file/wofezugozewatatowimetomu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161308103377fb---nunirulidu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000c880.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC880	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000e092.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE092	16436 bytes
SHA-256: `6617120f9d679ae1171a0dd3387205e0c8e38c91e77977fa0265ef033d2b0c54`
`font_02_sfnt_off00010b43.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B43	11160 bytes
SHA-256: `99427bcdcaac1ef7c58411d7b7e3de8027a9cfec4cc25b31e3b168d8117d71b0`
`font_03_sfnt_off00012523.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12523	16416 bytes
SHA-256: `0a7c40006fc27d51153b21d6a48ea79a8c7f146cc8b15030b343ea684e52a4c8`

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