Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a1a6e5f39842f4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:58:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 84533d95494087d990d22c22ad7bc44b SHA-1: 5279f363e450747e43fd2f8fc9c4cbfa0c0fd3d5 SHA-256: 9a1a6e5f39842f4dfbc64833e3a2f225e2c22e0c626d7f8aa2132e4abe50d4cf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=make+a+pdf+from+images PDF link annotation
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f20b031c06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/fotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/nilizogaxorabisagove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610089dd304e2---9321686477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/85794220159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/15047233041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/64257070266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/18835106346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0af889b489db941f970cf7ea30173cc/5048306029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/23439415812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426f1c4366cbc0aee5d5c4e0969720f0/tinikomosixefeletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/56570679412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peintures-descours.fr/fichier/files/77271183983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e306276a43e678c25d2df02918986e7f/napedizujulizise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f19353d710---17677006456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatstone.com/upload/files/57481847481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/fibinodabigonotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fd354fc4e---fumixirapajabimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b10fa19836a---76665833128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vexesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/89169354643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/16556511832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abcea845bd---taneteno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasson.vip/images/editor/files/susisapakimowavu.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_off0000e93f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE93F 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 38e59d9b27c1421adfee069f33b17f063603c0ee59b4268eeae657968c236f8a
font_01_sfnt_off00010185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10185 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11997 18016 bytes
SHA-256: 075b5968e6ba3875b254fb97b39a9905185136fe8869b680d03cfa690c3a9eb1