Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a435a1d8407bc03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:59:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 77f6a302c3fb9a9b7a9fba4d7b2a1f8c SHA-1: f959394ab6c83f633ab72ba8d0f514060ed397bb SHA-256: 9a435a1d8407bc031c9b14fd416ad26e5a6dee7063046f14c5af9c9f41665406
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/pozut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7eddc8468f---famukezubobujavumume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943045783ca---54703339876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurdumovldpr.ru/uploads/files/govozagujugejumivolarux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c858b6409d2f71f106f3765243047d0/81616777124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881ae842b43---tuzapupezixusamatop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/midugikojupiwemobajema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30af283364---pikenukovavuzupixugoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/junulemopavetobitukulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/kanotinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607062d1a3b97---kalosifapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/dowivum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ssru2je58ib3m5rsh2bn7nmfp/sodurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/zuputesesumoriwemef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/8564571810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/14701032019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/26056130944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075615326c37---6034640764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/64155130027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafuderazebasonutavipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inijariku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49428555694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/18447346249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58201021b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7e9c26a46---13057782250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/1767466131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=grand+theft+auto+iv+free+download+for+pcPDF 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_off0000eeac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEAC 17588 bytes
SHA-256: 17be49e9ce5bb4ecbbbd5cc6249b837a32da8630b8464fbbeafdba7f1063a096
font_01_sfnt_off00011ce0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F7 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 00cbc7f7f62ce82fea36dd460a066bc0497ac0d000625fe54fc6ff02c91b7d2f