Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a9ce74d4e4c0bad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.8 KB Created: 2021-06-24 07:42:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 026518911ee9d891cb8d3e4c1be27781 SHA-1: bddbfa4c95940c4dbfeeb851d0df77e3fd7bb6d9 SHA-256: 9a9ce74d4e4c0bad9d5ece72c1bfeac97149c3b934e729da591dd0f48bba2041
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to exploit user trust.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082484a75e75---sikavaluzekogufupovob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/67235857085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/60420329966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9811bd76b19fca92cd7bf7b65f0e3de/raxisuduniradiwolugedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b005f4df92b---meferonakuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakatka.com/files/file/jipujuxixivarusikedafutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iguanapools.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frm0s64aibe03nq0glqj0j1jhb/kuzasiguxobedizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/av550jtrb8475ibfel08b2k0v4/nolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/dizituzebefiwafisigogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c262768b3e1---46888186711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbi2855mclsqp8pa2uoqj1g76q/52831606432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e7e77f101024902d0dcce0eb1ec2aad/dufawexiwipomutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/1084652674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/9726834607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/sugexatovuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d42515ab0e---jizegimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs71.com/clients/c/c9/c97ff408e01126d63256cf68004d6641/File/78677417024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=the+game+pdf+freePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b24a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB24A 5196 bytes
SHA-256: ed81765968b273c9b603a21bf337dc3ef41d702407cbd5ef1d9ec808ea5eef3d
font_01_sfnt_off0000c3d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3D2 9060 bytes
SHA-256: a982d7aa3d0c5b8d35005d4bcc226b43684d6f316e9d8f198bb86aea1cbe0547