Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9252e241be084e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:46:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 20cf428b5684104a96e1ddcdad3e974d SHA-1: d11e7ee4f81ad7e45f3c31b01d07c98ce7f34fdd SHA-256: f9252e241be084e2e9037dc028f727ce8cd16d7d9a89da34acf1610c7e582640
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure victims into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=airlift+3p+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/sojowugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/nokugikikoleju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/waferudinesejotuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/88836070385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/91026485682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e2607a027---55967352306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ab9bc825dd---41195904738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xupimukitokewemikuletavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3719cc91d1---subolivexiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2jadf0ji8bct8urjsvkd4varr/23600756094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/10286195806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videocopilot.net/assets/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68429983521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escqatar.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/32084457603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/43989575637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/kewuwixisatoraseremiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867dae6a5ab---sewidovepesupagalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32c94aec6e8971f93ea5899d746a8168/36400612199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/wodetanazovavuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aefb17da42f83cd1099a5a6ce9a02352/zigezosozixixuxiniluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/36672271627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://attack.lt/images/files/zutezotonumelujawexikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d59phc53fc7b7peiou3icbdu2s/8539246454.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_off0000c3b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3B0 10352 bytes
SHA-256: bff9b6afac0f10803e6351c243129fdaa50f74aec630244149dcca34cadd103c
font_01_sfnt_off0000daf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30B 17060 bytes
SHA-256: d46ce594ba3f9b8a48ace4c210b555cae2909dd5e05dd64bc13d6efb5caf8314

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