Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0009a12b5213a454…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:06:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 659ecf079edc2bb626479cb151067c13 SHA-1: beba44f1aa3585dc415fff6cb61db97394544b94 SHA-256: 0009a12b5213a4546ec443c14f3528dc9b7c0d1b4077c6f6314bad933e49c8a6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/752h7id66n56mcotgi5sk52ci9/17551065325.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210820_8C1AD7C1F5DBB600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3sdhamsgfmkkqmvj9mhj1srb20/xofunaduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/wijuxiwizalimikobabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-16/20210516094846297419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/87916295696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/22204172652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/83379263947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38392840594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/57540309440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/5311425049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608576c9a7285---gikupuval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/mukibujoruvefabeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609823531a880---22746273992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/9857764375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/6549_20210525041342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e23225a9ee0dff83038d80c860da535/73871749401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f60phqg9q9p6sg29q84bm42vr6/30883993444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5096551221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4813585a05---83421426914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/tevurizelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cac96003a416865f7f78f2a0a5a26ad/52928803403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae12668071b80518c5c799fb5adf6d9d/zezope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/63687976659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=acrobat+pdf+editor+pricePDF 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.netReferenced by PDF JavaScript
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseReferenced by PDF JavaScript

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e76d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE76D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF84 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 52204f9666d107b790ea2301e004a56838064916aefeca34b0b531137b9c78d5
font_02_sfnt_off00011702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11702 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 232478c4d0be013d776069846f316eeefa81af3a6ab2d779d22c4c4ae01e53e5