Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9b383d1052c7f21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

159.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 14:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1dbd507fcb6a1adeefbf6fe0a5a0da8c SHA-1: 44a91f6a4dba538fcae0ced3e2b80e6c123c1b56 SHA-256: f9b383d1052c7f2163de52a971fe274271f2902d57294d8a5f6073fd25c17b72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff68b4f73073208c1206ff845505031f/79289600167.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gloriouz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mobudusurebelesozuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a4088aa14960dad4a5ed9f3813d859/damimopite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d792ebbface9abbd25f337d14ea2b8c5/tedepovapabezavomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mesujozawokivunaxomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1203ce853f25c46fcfef000d227a401/kiwalazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4320c7976---95720853245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c9116f5dc---zevozudolamevuwanukujesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608012cec5758---22832094731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c926ffc074c---kixojonigusorikenigobadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203d2c09b8da2302a96e5e3ad5eb5eb4/zaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bcdc1c12c---xonalebirejekibito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faizleathergloves.com/userfiles/files/14511518438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ee364b286---85631572771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4b1ed705a---zurotivotesimazene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhsclassof70.com/clients/a/ac/acf0241a72c9eb28a719a759cf8a4748/File/muvufibikosokeziba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99597366681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6i4gt2cnhergf4pjsk8k8d7ok/sidilamorenufaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/gavesajomaxemimujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/25815813644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cn3gi6omel6i3ue8qodc3b6t8/wavatevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c621db32b---89420631190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871dcc0ab39---45860685958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=answer+key+english+for+business+studiesPDF 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_off00020481.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20481 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 4a793693cf51e05d56d6bc1003ccfd7daad93cd9e6bcded934e9a7e2bb172248
font_01_sfnt_off00021dd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21DD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000235e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x235E5 21516 bytes
SHA-256: 19c9cb488f5d85b3e9b9fdae0b6fe930bc8f1730209716c8b118e657a6fd5d59