Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a9e7ad84e898582…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 01:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a1084e1c98e51542bc44b48730c01757 SHA-1: a678ccd58068af114756080a17b25ef6b834b751 SHA-256: 1a9e7ad84e89858220a204421f5878b7f0f6b474fc3ebb54801cfd394721d620
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing content or further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the overall detection profile strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+turn+gps+on+my+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fbb1739e95a9538f2b7d34145ccc005/9185399693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lodl5p3erdett3mgoen0enuubt/lekafujagolikubixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mycoapaisyl.com/webimages/files/desura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tareeapartment.com/user_img/files/82526062327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6239ef145---56830680180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7614559362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1climbing.com/userfiles/files/19883723184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/52407861059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac504b744b---7502363360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourmoneyyourbank.com/uploads/File/livapina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu/data/editorfile/lixujupipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatuchlina.cz/upload/file/sasulanisolile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rupankar.com/fckimages/file/najojifasirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjgjqmr.com/v15/Upload/file/2021951828441070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/jajimimipukukakaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imosa.asia/uploads/files/202109070334241474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac8fac6393---92753161349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://needychild.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapakexakosujugilowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamma-electronics-eg.com/userfiles/files/73291531560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147ac67d05f2---12159273001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/zoropalemigekixud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dragonexpressml.com/userfiles/files/bogudewitabomiranotuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/nipukeronubitusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnmindia.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/49660160655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/mezabaxinizatewaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d3ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC0 17260 bytes
SHA-256: cbc6498a1a958886690c213a2fc81706dab09e0ae6b39171f5d389466d8952cb
font_02_sfnt_off000118b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B5 10924 bytes
SHA-256: c93513a88889983fe0f81b4a50f9d7c89ee36011a2ba1f7450fe5f95faf6113e