Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9a51057ce89650f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:12:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9ada21dffc013402eb867d002c7d0535 SHA-1: 95561ac60ea98cf38b78a9d9ce453b93b90a17a7 SHA-256: f9a51057ce89650fd96e1d075cb45e9a22d4e9b1a8239fda562220755940a938
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the nature of the embedded URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/jofuzalix.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd5f5b2686---47646869371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bebakarizutunoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607faec2c605f---77770571419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e81469e9722---jififa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/3483103001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a766dfa7068---65951858903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/vusarimegagipudefiwenetid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oddmo3ul2e6c6rk1m7idb77tp2/digotulukemutoniwofira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20967646589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santabruna.cl/upload/file/61575811354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d82a4a02455d1cd0e8644d94a1655f0/rovomewigiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e5050d74c31015aa7025bda646070d/duvidevetelajitutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/78615786668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eeccc8fd1815020b6312bd641b63ee4/mafemenavusijawanudesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erulingua.hu/uploads/content_files/files/57245893572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610303d04e083---lupugulonobulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305157d00af---86042779092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexforstarlight.com/clients/4/41/4125d763bdae894b2c088b8c4c0f4705/File/26484321841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parvazyab.com/basefile/api203/files/mepeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rigdrilling.org/userfiles/file/poladinupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/nabatobuvopumokaravome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/fojomitaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dda054f19566c5d4bd0340cf95b448cf/98083499737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/zeruvifavejagetunufavagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=technological+devices+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_off0000cd6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD6B 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 4b3ff94d892b4d39bdc8d9b241a2145d14594bf782b388b5d0fdce1b50417515
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110C7 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 28bafbd9195f46c9bef6cfe6d22af793696d9a188558928ecf952e0cb1a1fb2d