Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aa4e7adcaf67905…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:30:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f5c48b69469b52b54c9e7af1e61e01f0 SHA-1: 3801d49708f6242695f9bbf8769dc1d6a8d070d3 SHA-256: 9aa4e7adcaf679051bbeccc03fe399e6fc6aeade921665410e34ef3b81484283
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the 'link farm' heuristics point towards an attack pattern involving user redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+hungry+shark+evolution+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://lideregitimpaketleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/51423057327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/93446520186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bona-agra.pl/Upload/file/31447870954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunkamalzemecilik.com/userfiles/file/70267239101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/losamezamogalazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsushibrea.com/uploads/files/49805920205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52915ee5f1ad5468c00c5dce97f4c64d/50215109348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.malagatour.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47518140074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a277bfba9---723297074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurmateng.com/contents/files/39855577849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovery99.com/userfiles/file/92618881101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f633befea---puxezumizukonubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57817442916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdmsig.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97891317469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenet.mn/userfiles/file/76085317508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jazamurunidileraliboriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-husum.de/userfiles/file/18598998890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/dolizezelixovipap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/mewogukajapolixajapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/96283279493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agecarekorea.com/ckupload/files/beboxoduwuwegovosodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlicentral.com/images/authors/file/42396771423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-instar.com/userfiles/file/83120479115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dc7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC7C 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 2d4e33e85a54c929f28ef515f36946d0d605f2ba24f403add1e3954ad286f273
font_01_sfnt_off000108eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108EB 11276 bytes
SHA-256: ca3bb6ec72ebeeb113242cae5186e51dfb4be49c7a4a9e8328d453089a2840de
font_02_sfnt_off0001230e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1230E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1