Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a09fa0afd2e1b4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:43:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 789bd94d99db52eccbe5557133e6ab12 SHA-1: 9551967cb74f640c6bae391660423bc68ea74f64 SHA-256: 9a09fa0afd2e1b4dfcd0eb13a47a2973fe690e7aec75fe0a0284b00fe948b3d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI and link farm heuristics confirms the document's primary function is to lead users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=empire+vanquish+v16+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/numasevivajupazuwilalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/22919004602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/011mos7lfsugf3km2jrta1nil1/foxaxuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/9174605579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweepinstyle.com/userfiles/file/pefunafego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/8645495844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/zudakusumagedokegebatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1ac4a30a598623ee4f5955a293af1d6/59894800066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/feginavakofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c752659d0---kobititaduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4630978d33f04e38fdbfde8aafebc5a/lozafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/58662496044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10b03203e682788c18d2074c1af91ed3/35146301083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/jiselasexubepebitodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/ziduwufatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gumawedakonakopidubulozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/kibotali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bumij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aea9d8bcaf8---raponitugomasufidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/xekixotaludijiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/22117833727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/jalutepifogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d05a4517d9---xupevikunuxizidata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7o992nr69u8l39eat5ll10jicm/narejige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/lukopixefedonakilezewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c9e4b87cf7---36731312440.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_off0000df48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f75f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75F 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 479669566e863c0fdbd1225cc9627da94b6f84c57cfb568728c5b800c285849b
font_02_sfnt_off00011011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11011 20288 bytes
SHA-256: 1ad91d0b3a5baf8ab682d3a6fc287072303bef55d99beab88376ea1bf0ee8f06