Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9beb0b1ace8784d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:01:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 96893120b4a99838330c0bcd242701c4 SHA-1: b60bdd2dab384ea586175cbc7eb94670e9706706 SHA-256: f9beb0b1ace8784d8f319e483225a92f5f2859aa99b37bcbf86d98e9e39bf94a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mean+median+mode+range+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f6d249666ee310076a737e608afefa1/14708652471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42739687312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/xibepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/88712213514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0ut7uu7q21nt02kg6ak7q3ta7/siderota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dac2f461a7587deb59c4ce4765fbdbdc/75941355256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5d28ab41bb---zoxajupifinisivazebiwase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/dibawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/37646926481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf29ede5f6---28503324867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/zagonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c005d95adb7---kifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/wimepatineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeloanz.net/images/e/file/koviripeganogizakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldplastsolution.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92385313445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59326478630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/65170069366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbrgcfo7pggh75h3j8m3943b9a/suruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramkgres.ru/userfiles/file/weserasojinunaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e35ba911dc5dfed1370e6d2d3aaeff2/pipedaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/30816595541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/nekenaxonubewexijofikupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60733401773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/vetopixuzijuwaneletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapet.hu/files/dufuxaletadutukuxenon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/23073595270.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_off0000ded8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EA 17636 bytes
SHA-256: 9ae1f33162c5861037d1a189cdc3be6ce9457d60cf7c6d9f160eca8c6e47fd1b
font_02_sfnt_off000124d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124D4 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 4f29e0d73e43c37f148e96939fd91c3887843d0d6ef142ce8b0b91d4d9cceab3