Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9cadc1cc5f0afbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:41:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 83612d145ad9071c2de0ed03087efd5c SHA-1: 7e850e5effe6492d9d9f708c4857094236822c8a SHA-256: f9cadc1cc5f0afbd6138bd9844a03e931e0329e8ac10ad391cad24393f3ca48f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites used for hosting malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures, but the overall structure and URL patterns suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=engine+turns+over+but+wont+start
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69070757516.pdf
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943d983e66c---47506956933.pdf
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt8b2he6vcrtahommp0894s211ga3mti/xekupigazonali.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc93f45340---65957477646.pdf
    • http://pratiklinik.com/img/userfiles/files/levesojukufir.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752900d0f13---doteroxivob.pdf
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rm54bnbpvc0tjokeur1ab5rdpm/16842346808.pdf
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/sosokumotum.pdf
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2ee434b2e---18503484924.pdf
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607055d99f9d7---21623982393.pdf
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/laneborixojizifemuwomojar.pdf
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/trnflnhslt797q53q97jfmg08q/semejawokuwajuzepi.pdf
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da5418ade6---butitodejowob.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmshba89rmkh074iafkrrv5icm/lugixolinane.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6005abcdc---37263802082.pdf
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3506c45ad9981f4deb984c76d9336ee3/59978171761.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607195e15266d---8024256113.pdf
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnmr6m727jsmp4h57mtfe7skfc/madebov.pdf
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086557047452---gaburofekagaj.pdf
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/5880455424.pdf
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210528_4C1B200202DF03EE.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d965.bin
598da6cc9982de566a07275a5fe3358fbee5fc317a17c32812acde69f887a63f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD965 16620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000104a7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011cbe.bin
241abdbf0355c9ed30eb46e5fb9427e4e02a23cd66f5357c720b7c7976422ba3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CBE 10612 bytes