Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aba3f8d9fdf9d18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-08-13 11:00:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cd1f7aeed6422eb57061e443dcff99c2 SHA-1: 00993dbae1d4fe602ec8f5bc808f7887a5effea6 SHA-256: 9aba3f8d9fdf9d18b6b621d75e4c4e12478c02016a58db2c0b425674ddb550aa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malicious content distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714b0f6866d---domidate.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/84909472009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.com/php/uploads/file/37734447715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/sejasakexorivanisinido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efc7e85ab0---wuwikewesisovaduki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/dorexirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukopalamugada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37ca21f9cafcf8d0a5ee54ec5ab875b0/tufarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/54382221943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustycctv.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98835781474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffb192838662e6239772efd6f4f913fb/53318594722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/35458258003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/rolubojibixolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/76922888001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nassagroup.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7672907149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160d418a45386e---zogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cfdd796ce---9174764435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/tilogaputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/052ce58698b254efdc7a8303cf3e5d75/riwizesiwidenujifego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekomurig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/86663887516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotitelor.com/contents//files/33144310288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.giuseppe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80809533667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/46946305375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=is+4k+ultra+hd+better+than+full+hdPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001062a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062A 10600 bytes
SHA-256: f25ea80e0105cc6e73278afd8a7eb98188636984fff1498c66ec452147925ba3
font_01_sfnt_off00011e5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E5F 17336 bytes
SHA-256: c129de2e6caebfa013759c971e4a24aed18d570ca088d67c4a559840b15302ad
font_02_sfnt_off00014bce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BCE 16080 bytes
SHA-256: b1c6688c4117b2eb132fe321d6e5c0cba7066824bbd4880a4905979a2499efec
font_03_sfnt_off00016105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16105 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1