Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a4c1813ff6a903c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:17:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3ded99759698e4ecc59b130b2dfa53c7 SHA-1: 5103e5e5f7d4cf5fd38684910c5333adf1a84567 SHA-256: 9a4c1813ff6a903ce5bb39c75df5dfabea5c35b2fe7210280c998f60de13f1d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other external URLs, suggesting it's used to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fffe1af002---duwibolikifabokisolidak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/39711115400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/zoluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/bukasujamigekawuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b08f2ffea8b1f0cc6b21f10a557749a7/wanaguvilego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2f68735a4---kemibomumizeduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matratva.in/userfiles/file/94898130542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/makubuveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saveondealz.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/84116529928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/goresakewosoxuxosawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mozilapavuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021090800330873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/fisudupikefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/jetamelunilaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/rijabuzirivorisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pai48s5gbbnntt6j947eugd387/xakozizatojimekavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907000530102696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ch1vcq2fme5acn107399jo6p6l/71408592369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47e91d86edd1f4b5315e57c9f48f9fcc/bubide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/gubemasonuzusesopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optykglowacki.pl/obrazki/files/mojedeposokunubarerex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/58707075679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xhiehchin.com/Xhieh_News/_file/simumunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kudotukinifexinaromis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copacndg.com/images/uploads/files/kiwimasogelani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/28451983909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=teq+android+16PDF 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_off0000d91a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD91A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF131 10256 bytes
SHA-256: a53624c13ed26379388cd570ca358265211a037ca92cad359bdf955c48a5a41c
font_02_sfnt_off00010820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10820 18884 bytes
SHA-256: cfc49dd13b4b776906a4e2f98d982bf4f12a5bb0c08f9a70097db59e47a1f429