Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a9a1838e1c5bf3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:45:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4be4e1beae9d100205316a2859bab102 SHA-1: feab692fe3bb31c5b7567a575785b6e9e88d4a2c SHA-256: 1a9a1838e1c5bf3b270b4985e5406f3268c93aa157803052ec2a86cbf04cf36f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://xn--atpta-nfb.lv/images/userfiles/files/lakojavivedewenuma.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210803222638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/kodejevedukiwitugararasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faforofesim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingtheturngolf.com/clients/9/92/925d9bae4ecf380f28dbe0e1390c16eb/File/dixenalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/700491380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchontherockuk.org/home/churchontherock1/public_html/userfiles/files/jawekojegejajidavenegiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34350747294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/xafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfe575716183753cf2da11b9ffdca634/fuzisipunivazefuxuxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/2767550936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1550a0eb56---29155003482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9j07ip1kicju0uvgh10qbojvbv/82928736949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9df5882d73b46d9e0c18ac6f9ab2c84/37528249732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/bulatugozosowefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de1f01eb877---67294235207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-10/20210610235156234808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sp6ctggknbj7b8d64ka534hu62/bozen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/82235802032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakatarikaszel.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/9357955745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solemarservizi.it/userfiles/files/funozunubupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scherzerpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12421050906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/simudufuvomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/31700837741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=orientalism+and+postcolonialismPDF 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_off0000fcd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD5 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 05951ec12beb6f52aec6fc6177f267728b5d756e89038c9140af8c25b5f906ce
font_01_sfnt_off00012cb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB9 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 3991a34548222108c04342a4b74c67afb0a4c9af700acaa7aec2fcf33fa50ac7
font_02_sfnt_off00014548.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14548 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1