Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a9cd7bd34b73a26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

162.2 KB Created: 2021-07-16 07:41:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5a39a5b806fd524e5c615f33fd6ab84f SHA-1: f777c1916f363995e54c057f47ef1050bba40ebc SHA-256: 8a9cd7bd34b73a26ed9dcdaaf309970e13e2d7373898a1329c78b375a83f69e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

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://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/volipigejure.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/21805767723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97ed11f664---92291916478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixmarketing.vn/upload/fck/file/88652169054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shs1977reunion.com/clients/41590/File/78338462339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amo0qidr0f70h8ipmc1mrhrb66/88033046847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/59823574338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/45306374457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/83348425265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/wibeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/73213510881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607139b70d8ae---xefoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97c37ab2f8---45917113215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/bikakasizidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e53ab5df4bd694a93fb06352b7c226e/sideduwafurufinirivufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://np21bellapalermoshopping.it/file/subiwibenijakikinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ac4754083---2339272513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphuctqueen.com/upload/files/26368376854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3870930jsuovguug49dr2if4s1/dojibixujususedukuwovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m900olemvtmkvf7a34i6cesfb8/jipugeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5965e8e21bd6fa2fdd7df6fda930cc7c/legatagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigpictureresources.com/userfilesbigpicture/file/96383556019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mp8upla1m4tm9i0pskk7u8g3gr/4327854372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/47830474686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=house+of+leaves+summary+chapter+by+chapterPDF 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_off000218bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x218BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000230d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x230D2 10960 bytes
SHA-256: a535675b969965b3a91302a291a78baf0fd2323954edfc154edc6cb2303021c2
font_02_sfnt_off00024a1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24A1D 19004 bytes
SHA-256: dd86d19a98d7be956798b96e8aeedf1ae733c769b08a49944ccd4ccef72f2d9a