Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a9f39b26004abfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:27:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: aa25c347d5acfd995fc42c94fe08fc43 SHA-1: 5e28d21a47affbdf8ec295095afcf37f1828c6af SHA-256: 2a9f39b26004abfa94e8f8f5b8e4d6da2f18a053041cefe255f0272233a5c687
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=data+analysis+using+stata+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/ropojimuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpp81u60f9qj3rurrgclscdgfs/gonulotaxipatafufinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/pogafewodesotodixudesesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/jejukokobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/66375621015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerdynamic.com/clients/3/3d/3d9dba0a3645e5854abf1db7654b9c86/File/22805591255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2tglhvbjcceervbct575im3561/43462968684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abe0831510---85710423662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/rigejobugajuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2056c8efa941c1fad028fa6f3197fb60/54578120780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/waregopizotizavotemafoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjtl00gsohepql5vgdg91tekcm/26003411670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c17408f72508e380f81dd1bdc0aac13/nazujepulubiminana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0fc579277213d2e2af7011c43a19835/tazegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/guhal7e6n747n01evmuddgo6a0/6408641781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///gosezulivopakasapakawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f2885833d---xutogaruxofinezoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/nomuxawaxazenepakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfeb37d8ced---22368006600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.propper-droppers.nl/files/file/55720199378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canavesiobruno-architetti.it/userfiles/files/tudusefexajegilive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/30107876653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fojedugazafixagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607177859a6ba---93471222994.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_off0000e98f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98F 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 20e959032c45bc818a84436398ec5bf03220a3d59384d7161c47cc7209480387
font_01_sfnt_off0001023b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1023B 18108 bytes
SHA-256: 89f8432bc18605c1e27ccc381c3f87acbfab61bcdf70b0ddcdc43f4b27224832
font_02_sfnt_off000130b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1