Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9144028663a9716…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: dd11a67b2dd5cb087aa3522a53ee3d2d SHA-1: 99fc2377c86112f04659ac8918a477abb8962cbb SHA-256: f9144028663a97165d6dc05f96d0cebf1943965ba75c700ce5cb7b5190b6ecfd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to phishing or malware download pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fairy+100+year+quest PDF link annotation
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907386656d0---guxusulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/tutedovotaxegobofoginileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e464c49307d---11828735207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7adf75948---45197165503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.info/contents/files/25194210516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/pezinowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2891af9dcdac98aeced477723842fd87/pedasegexilimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuqiaohome.com/uploads/files/202108212342311423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/55367800594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/8224251035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents/files/70024328741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/98925870530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/57876737532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/71089139550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catgarner.com/clients/873270/File/83107921594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moraure.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11209795446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/zavuxorusedikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f44975b04---jubemusaxigavadiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/69978010011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/44101161636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4efb61c8f---golaworaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/midezokovude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/zezuluredujowewaluvokewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colormotion.cz/UserFiles/file/rebabovapozuka.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_off0000d3a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBB 18580 bytes
SHA-256: 08fbab50a15797cd074c10fd7cf589930f8269aa46e5cfc6f2e83960e3a7d2b9
font_02_sfnt_off00011c39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C39 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 5d4473bf6437002f0f753382c64faba1639c68637681830b9ed07ae3b532cfdd

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