Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a9b39d8da96d676…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-27 13:48:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c6a02ee729b9d82d94f35512e88ad8bf SHA-1: 78c8d05fadb15c3c5cc8bc45e4f15572a8258d66 SHA-256: 1a9b39d8da96d676ff1511f26745a296ddabbaadd483b946e8126d353fd163c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving exploitation or redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/27058459841.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506030815767764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahdrilling.com/userfiles/files/degurifonulukipolivuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/dinapiliwaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609836b5dd681---79590354239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17068026120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuilder.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35905669682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202106251534281477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2761e3db7a061e4679cbf185fb9238b2/wuxalezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/73153491198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanikango.in/file/melezopojapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ce94af84a1eae0bc59b0183679fbd93/biketeratiraderexowusul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pp88bss1c246hnm3nhm5hk9uin/vajuwabenowunamot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5ccfac1aa---72244284567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbes.nl/media/files/78402243903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/gepebemidevirumagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b21be45748e8f00d6f93741e87d2efa8/mafuwidosuvaronoren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/78816070221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a1947b60edb0b4ac62ada1e6df92791/folopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f7995b7a2---buxusasipogik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27eaa5d0cd---66274120598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8a1a69333---60628638313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93192137444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/12050699431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=spanner+size+chart+for+bolts+pdfPDF 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_off0000e972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE972 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 0abcf8b21982b3c93de899e24acddb1e6f40b89ec294bd3fe6a86979fb40eb19
font_01_sfnt_off000114e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D00 10992 bytes
SHA-256: d22f725613467c3c1b61d663f63cb89b44f3c9376898afa4caf9aa017253ffb2