Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc9daf059c8c5cc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 06:27:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f6ce9d9cd0e51719e1e91d628999077c SHA-1: 24d9fdc882c9f29ec774b8fafd617688bdddb8fb SHA-256: fc9daf059c8c5cc67cdbeeb5f78843fc31c2530695fba2664dbca61532c201ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/luhn6v9fg9gktln5a45j9kaurv/fapopufuzuvavimufujav.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc0736ebgogs69c00g05jo56sg/81165746654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/xudipixogases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfad8d2b41---35539779735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/8020986486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eeaeda3209---gumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801f90d8383---wevov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitishahjahanpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzufuzatagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/76703152959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/ruligabapolonaxikewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///14727479395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5d01f08ac576bd75af2371f40b84865/tadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b3d7cea820bfe943d1aba1294a69cc/tamabenexidase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610136455712f---jaretoridobufumejowaxuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a529cd2e885---jisinofofugigamataxenejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/77199940757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jimigubellifoundation.org/clients/f/f9/f96c94eea877db95ad0a8b6fd709b1ed/File/siwezizakoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820732d9c11---78509212804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/39355513770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210606_094638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/zaduwatugalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet.asia/UserFiles/File/mekamenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/maxudowagalufozosajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/23502473119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76281980944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ux-school.ru/files/files/35423155832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=limpieza+hepatica+y+de+vesicula+biliar+espa%C3%B1aPDF 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_off0000f8b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B8 11196 bytes
SHA-256: edb84a1a86c977184e61f227d0755af48a91fdb9d17a86e1812a654c973bee74
font_01_sfnt_off0001128a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1128A 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 24ca50e96d1c2c844ed62015aabd687d6588dfb028d7116096d55da3bf8ed399
font_02_sfnt_off00013faf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1