Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a62341536afb450…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 15:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9d39e3ebb85fd5824790a54ca745727a SHA-1: 96157dc6ddd74bacfe951febe03b9d59148ff5eb SHA-256: 9a62341536afb450bcc163e4c894df541ae0fbf95e6e32a568cb3797cedd2a27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting PDF files. The presence of 'utm_term_redirector=True' suggests a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination, likely a phishing page or malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0717813ac---52862680024.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gsacademy.ge/uploads/files/nedozatevufudebivipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61337682823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.lv/userfiles/files/84128729107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpelec.com/data/file/20210904_114903_149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/tusuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detmers-kontejner.hr/files/rubazaxuvixowiduzuvakiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pactforfamilies.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevemosamipimuline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkstores.gr/userfiles/file/nosasuvuladoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/femipokugekulaxisizedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/boliforijig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/99304665290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614517a50d48f---52814011012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/19918796512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opersan.com/file/galawazigevipipilabibedup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109111942285414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161491117e0ee0---74468361393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashole.hu/UserFiles/File/vezuvesutone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/finil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/40153590037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/5661046368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenosada.sk/editor_uploads/files/tenedamasojewusadipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/69389242961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=drag+and+drop+in+recyclerview+androidPDF 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_off0000b2b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2B0 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 4279c8019807715047f66879fc4414fcd7ebab565fc687560fe329ebc5884e5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000dff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF9 10688 bytes
SHA-256: c111716608fdf25f8a96aa9847e9b0a39410c4018cf421279836c67b5c9b20a7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f85a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1