Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a4a648155b73cc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:18:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c7e362f04841912ada8e965d2297451f SHA-1: c394ca8e9699c6daa5f3a3615ac88f0de0f94445 SHA-256: 9a4a648155b73cc078573ab9c535c14338a3d0b5c573c38193f785afb77e5383
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31135314137.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30d1dd4b17---lidademerugupatutijebuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/50460743285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/mulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cddb8fecd40---77666323696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4964b2022331c586e19e7e27efb7ff7/8257920234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/zusujirulorofasokuxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/vokuvixubidubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/gudeduwuzoxumesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612929ba507eb---89841196843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtrinhnhaviet.vn/upload/files/93735013418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/55251225072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/55040365957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/nimaxelujixelopugaloviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegaletrotta.eu/userfiles/files/33834226759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a769c1de2---temakirutolirosuwoxeditem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mppoa.cloudlinesystems.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99967235786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/fumopifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0127dd6a66---vupufijuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d27c1bb729---38031435802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9ft5ooif2p4vr2ksvbk6bhol1/73677472640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe9a853673---17218019198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/84116941552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c79a0b94cd---76436651947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=spawn+of+hellPDF 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_off0000d6ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC0 18284 bytes
SHA-256: 5e3b2b4b7f84d438c66d3d036e4a343643edb76936b6cf86d37e371fa97a1693
font_02_sfnt_off00011e1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E1E 10160 bytes
SHA-256: d75c803270509dea8e18044606f21dbd0e1ad8753b2a1888c631798203712c17