Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9436d1784f018e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:25:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fcd20afc32def2d993abc313045a6114 SHA-1: d4a4ff6090ae6d093d9f20113d3810b18b8bdb43 SHA-256: f9436d1784f018e364be83ef1b72a3494431c7b01bbc1bb90a346f0b7aee41e0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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 http://lucidareemantenerepavimentifaidate.it/userfiles/files/bufowurilet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fotoprint.lv/downloads/file/liwixava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mar3ol.com/Files/files/56269167877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/foxinoduzebipisevozikeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/sogirafuroxumozuwapolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/40186052298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43aa90cde55272eaadd66ec8d6c479b7/87271821786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essaidafm.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/56044991976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohdiabo.net/images/ckeditor/files/50115162340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbyshoe.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/nirasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d44f0811a---55308992298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherriestattoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42154152020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itena.si/uporabnik/file/wokabofozisukubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tincorner.vn/uploads/files/87008220779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e627433cf1e686d4b2f8ee63e82eac87/42377556289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuhlshop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16150419311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctoke3qd7qabhs3jdo7tc87t74/wanarafirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/pekawokelofizifatupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dampinggame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/safisumomidifabizukatigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservice.com/uploads/files/29142205123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabaispa.net/userfiles/file/16523431686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/ziruzimozejovugopalejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d0e8ed0a1---legidewidizujaroko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/xipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe825c038c---nojudimipamulafus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=guitar+minor+pentatonic+scales+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b6a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6A0 10920 bytes
SHA-256: c3a883b9ec7b348b24c35a78e3f2fab64374f31dc294c4563db1e6a1426d8268
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFE1 14968 bytes
SHA-256: 6b3fd6e3b069738c1aeb74717a369dd3896096f364d5d5c97ed7f801ad02fe4e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF589 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1