Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ac04fa25c6ab47a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 16:55:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d68f973a7f5da1b11e590bbb47e7983e SHA-1: d298bd869a482fe0b391318828c57d24e3a6324c SHA-256: 9ac04fa25c6ab47a27c79277dcac407d3c590d0d6ad30dada0484963ed5ab7c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and a compromised CMS upload link strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=letters+that+start+with+s PDF link annotation
    • https://leanuslab.com/UserFiles/file/xipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samavetpharm.com/userfiles/files/74406538092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/zujiwepunava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/30018916433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df11c64b43b06059e2cc14682c9f221/75302473568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movediary.com/userfiles/file/naxuvikosadulatine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/30584090053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ap-arte.ro/fckupload/file/jivexefibuzozipeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidotesawadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/99771327084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irastuff.com/admin/ckfinder/uploads/files/zujalopevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fevawojujigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/texagimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedaks.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/8672472573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/rosiwofamefesalanafoluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1tlstar.com/storage/uploads/files/14302022302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://registermycompany.in/admin/userfiles/file/43608603940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webminmax.com/userfiles/file/ziworemikilopubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5388111092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adamant54.ru/userfiles/files/3272311116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31fjs4avrhed01a786fejma902/2163052869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94966836855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/61775333981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fbcd4dcd65---94046500945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614090fc6ec4b---limidasofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardeche.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3370907242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suwabalu.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_off0000d972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD972 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF184 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 941dcb7447b48daf1741d483d5fe2261371b8481a0c2c32110f677dfb4ca9368
font_02_sfnt_off00011e18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E18 9976 bytes
SHA-256: 29344f97faefe419a4a0dfe2faf930d164103c55cb37bce4151c56e4f4c10f60