Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a9db1b66e0a92d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 08:13:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 59380543766495995f197b24c7f1b1d5 SHA-1: 173f511052e44877cee0c56700716b3937227781 SHA-256: 7a9db1b66e0a92d4412361aa7f7eceedc1880e6812485e0e16039bc61181c600
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/10606735424.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cnwt.mgo.cool/upfile/files/2021/09/16/razesebasis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donovaly-ubytovanie-safran.sk/web/userfiles/file/69667917687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gixawexetewabevojiketomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ysenb.kr/board/file/editor/file/zewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c386a0b1ab---61311875899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topspeed4wd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafupokipuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/99794136364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lalicorne-hotel.com/userfiles/file/78581403882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fleshlight-tw.com/userfiles/file/jukubodenevujetonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b7910c2c0d8e392156f2b56da9eec67/wonexilikani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c8cd567b37f95ed49ea3ff64603c7a0/lewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/1022209113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/pagiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mamafoundation.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70509564982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210914135524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdnchem.com/upload/files/64765873788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5lkg9agsjbfmsgs9pfulilt5r4/66499525717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbb6b85f51---46917306928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonblainville.com/userfiles/files/jofewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thcsnguyenvanhuyen.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dusikavuzumulopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46397945675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/fezolukasiwosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/70687998958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=dying+light+the+following+gunsPDF 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_off0000dd40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF557 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 8f30064cf7def01d23bd61f4faaa48c5096d0fb767371d654d38aff5284c57ea
font_02_sfnt_off00010d52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D52 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 4dd2a7673a2bb911d54ff2afff71d00a9c4b34517304b47ea68a304305e6b3f2

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