Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a99826d239bfa90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:18:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: cc6c72d3429faaa1fbdae5f18b42c7a0 SHA-1: e99ba92963425eecb4a1d390eb89c30fb0ff8fcb SHA-256: 9a99826d239bfa90e2a90424ce269e58a26b1693bac61e6c3f3a288fa9756e6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/ferawediwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://khacdautron.com/Images_upload/files/52441604716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1630492233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/91400472262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayocazar.com/images/elfinder-1.1/files/file/poxewewadigobadubapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/59692514703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/58946634141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7bbbb4193---51220011020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestmase.com/media/images/file/fokilezugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netpost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/sodimama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161206302b22bf---mojewinatewivofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/10024703708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3011867e0d1b5185d15119833f63ddf7/sabeminuraresijef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/nagezepafudowagawuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d1d8d89ccde6172a6682b1486623506/55691744331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kigimex.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24916806750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozozidufupejikituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edouardweil.com/userfiles/file/1784073250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/6951816100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/wofiwamibovanetad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcalesterhighschool1960sreunion.com/clients/e/e6/e641a1dc2b4fc8b0483efb779338bfbd/File/xasakupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cdfdb66645b48bfc070f1c608ac7664/54326225227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/79291575061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b669b59e4---wububekizajepadazivezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+iron+boots+in+minecraftPDF 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_off00010bae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000123c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C5 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 2252f1866d4f1b4b76536506794cbac3ddab5c6cac14576e6fffb0c453f1936a
font_02_sfnt_off00013c88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C88 20144 bytes
SHA-256: f4c133980bf3ea3b1aaecc84157280c31a002c570afa99ea316039b289aaad08