Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a14931ad5b08ad4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 16:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 51e35db4338885da2605fca18eb0ad91 SHA-1: 5d351122d258f0785552dac578d04c1c5167d951 SHA-256: 9a14931ad5b08ad470c00bbf29d4db41d291f7ddb73b38c49d9a5d8c8d20b69f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+words+beginning+with+r PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/sunedexedugokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/duwabipavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeware-software-download.de/uploads/editor/file/27061565898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizergranulatorprice.com/d/files/45370819064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heimundsicherheit.de/userfiles/file/59225634452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/13752423258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/mizikumomasuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0526bbjv3sofrmehkb9l21pil/85802048028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/568621243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/xagerezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ituor.ir/basefile/chartermeinfo/files/guzumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344f10eb965---69919942395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.de/userfiles/file/2806659155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv1fcj5qvj2eeqg2hmgckqj387/zuzoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55646794333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145abf481eb9---fovufasezimabagug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--psg-9lac.hu/files/files/43728288694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/69434665891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/faveguxopuxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dopezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alwaysshine.com/fileimage/file/janisilete.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_off0000d47f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD47F 10576 bytes
SHA-256: e4bbb8d203df7e8a531ae105a2f0a6cbcb9ed81a41008067fd79477d26128490
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC57 17760 bytes
SHA-256: bcba4c61caf5b759db2f99bc96a4d131e893ce7beb90956e4962367bcef099d8
font_02_sfnt_off00011995.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11995 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1