Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9c1d835a49aee12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-08-13 03:59:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 396845ad08c64f82d16a1b6792ffff30 SHA-1: b81fc90c76c9104040a9b48dcb53e5e6e95a8a1c SHA-256: f9c1d835a49aee12e03b8461760cf8a5bd99416b24304c27be394e200f961900
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Several extracted URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3bdpvjur8btiqb700v9qoga70/87205623549.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/bonamopiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/19915300179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07uhjps1g4d5vnb1vb4pdqaa8i/rezotagedulexusesewabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/wagigixileletixisosijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-vietnam.com/upload/files/dopisodivutoxobakubilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/bugulaxotopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/48654579939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/dafimuluwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evopizza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daruvubitajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a599b400962f08bf37b70fb125069f31/66500971261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lps742d4pp2dnkkj9oosr35ch1/60670610744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/kemajutipupaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/lepidalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782953249c8---55508203533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4d9250d60b5ded580e02c29e6d77cc/gogufavabomawepovuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/jamesososupenupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/vanepabunezivekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/gusizufupikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a494205dc7---30491371773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elm3rad.com/file/35419500392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba64ba66c23103552273ae97cb3a61db/lovirako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/69604636556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0623a6c2f8db67ed21a456a518ce672b/lavidopirepajegozuzenaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=envision+math+2.0+volume+1+grade+3+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_off0000ca20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA20 16724 bytes
SHA-256: 8744ee53ea3ed17b8860354ff44c30193504a4d7141334e33280b786a6587e3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C3 11624 bytes
SHA-256: 878f46cc3f0d96abb4cff02b643d6637a7c3aa45d1987f68ca786c6de1195cae
font_02_sfnt_off00011118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11118 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1