Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9390ae424b8bcc2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:02:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e553aa080f213b1804e107f640e3eb0c SHA-1: 553f002539b8169fb1d8ae80e56356dd2d3525df SHA-256: 9390ae424b8bcc2f3f444366b7af80899f38588894beb4b6c4c99670efecd86d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it is used to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9881

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=tipos+de+documentos+administrativos+da+escola+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/66126047202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5cd09b714---vakosiwokavaputepivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8347662b63603c059105a160a86b7df/66163611960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/jugugokuned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0674a19ff6fa5cd5f7b52f41d4595c43/86210137203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dla-pracownika.pl/pliki_user/File/boxizofaxizuxaropugufoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113320b5492f---19141002320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/81516925395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lishasurgical.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45284446730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobupowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/mebofaxowovudabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36558046783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitepalacegrill.com/userfiles/vupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/53038519145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9771d7d3af---96356885431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e88da74767---59084846576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d250d2e4518a080783bc869fe7d0ce6/18053689448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127ed6fe76d0---85297007180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/34659833032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/7830766447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilembo.it/userfiles/files/7358485750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160705e7b8d485---44360584467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/4881315351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2173a0d046---susene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210713145619_pgbxg5.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://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_off0000eea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA6 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 6e1ae2411110b1fdf8dbb34f676d4fa7c3266a44cf6b877938252920a65ffb54
font_01_sfnt_off000107ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FFC 18724 bytes
SHA-256: 8f475915ef69a14bb4b229245bd348c19070b5920eb1612a8e8b942a795b17ea