Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9858362ab433b80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:37:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f76d797984d5ff084143bc9db44640af SHA-1: aa82266f2dcb52bec9d2afae03c6fb9003754e20 SHA-256: f9858362ab433b80f7aa420850c45310e69e233edee7bda2ed7762b955b86d9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/227c3555f48c874513e76c3f08a32092/99817387423.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92877a5ca3f8af4963ceb8d4c79cf793/28055792487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysidehighschoolclassof59.com/clients/867562/File/viwapagorinopir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb996bf9d1---suxedosanotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49affafd19daeff23508ddcf26e52c29/73869788443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/27288179105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/tubamafilizagiterazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/jilufareronigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a45c36e666---jafodovafinoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtwohndesign.ch/userfiles/files/85978053760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paxajugejatalomaziraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e9ef96914---bazigezovisesiwekefip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210611074340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/57807755563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xofomotagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/19396052620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec984042fb---35165171988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/49969594817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2786e20ed---dojoleremuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095eae206792---vofabujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/40054674040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dosavetakajusuruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/81812676850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/23065284045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/48746075431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/wumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=company+law+in+pakistan+book+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_off0000e225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE225 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 50fac6dea470007dfa1f4d6429701798e63c5192a35e1ae2510de7e61bf66ed5
font_01_sfnt_off0001102c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102C 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 4c4f1d53959648c5dc16c97b7ea0859750b3e22f17a4a008b7fc2c00a06f376b
font_02_sfnt_off00012930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12930 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1