Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9ff21265217b146…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3c13be14afdaf2a0fd3ab14898ce5b2a SHA-1: c9ca114dd63c31f48dd733392444f76000bcb0f6 SHA-256: f9ff21265217b146fa937a08244fa193dd27321287f1153619984907b39f2947
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to serve malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure align with techniques used to distribute malware or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5db3coe6ct2sf615jlt7t9gbs/46152817212.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6732f90bd9---guvadawazavupokegumezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/vakusoluximoxuxutututuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/26022397445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63d253eeacd0b8be1706c1d3f7bce267/73593998141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28cc32cb54---xuwilamupamedimakuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/59651887842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860e45b6da49426b2d6ad82c165de842/pibaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/fipafupotego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dothi.info/images/files/75915828225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/624df14e966732c9635a5497dbb8f1fa/87660287166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hudsonohiohighschoolclassof1980.net/clients/7/7d/7d4b1ad73701457990394555a34ab01f/File/sazavuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/43613436362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45857c34839aa81fd645157cd946d75d/gejelagutiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609001ac5e8c9---lovivelekoxaxamojumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce9b8e718a---zupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/10960623807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b24bea0136e328033bda34cd384d012/71049266062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc409ac891---33056810677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63up6hfcel2mqfkohmgk891h7e/14523787280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816399a8eac---sivobemejidibunozaminu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpq036g1dot2039bemv5aa14o1/56647298582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e05358cf0---lipenuwodikuzabuwojika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=escape+room+the+game+submarine+answersPDF 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_off0000f1ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EA 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 4957df0a8098dcb2c31e28a04b37d37dc32b2b42aa021d3b92c72e90f07f1a56
font_01_sfnt_off00011dff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFF 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 73708f6bb9a484b499d335ab47f0f5b27147a557b6a98b2759c1944d78fa0054
font_02_sfnt_off0001378b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1378B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1