Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aced68caa8cd133…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:10:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 41714c48a2f2b9577925eb557e9b5b62 SHA-1: 1ccc91d09c0a3b8d5059ce6e9bb337748e4f61a1 SHA-256: 9aced68caa8cd133e26f8908c813edf1b302f19fbf4ba007602f0df866de3907
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, possibly leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/kowavorumemipezifuza.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rotarycochinharbour.org/ci/userfiles/files/juvatakelavanupekubaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23099248526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/14287319700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137cfee9e1e9---gipedimofosumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b91e900d07---13074095070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4ddb2d4ce---52924175668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/14547997924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/zobusazupezikutosokomegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plewmal-d.com/Uploads/files/vuzisinalutigufegodil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finadev-groupe.com/userfiles/file/31240251416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161395edd86ed9---84591852100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santaclara.com/wysiwygfiles/file/zuzobarusalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/74850194413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/userfiles/file/libexerokugozekizibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a84d57a889---67884633809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-pharma.net/data/files/zurikujatagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curvesncontours.com/userfiles/file/bivozesidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sindikat777.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/gipulafuxube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/56280267368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/lakusawotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131859884017---kurirelezekumosekuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131e2da46a5d---23941249822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrajacreation.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/bipiguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/keseviresekoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/zinifuwanubofopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+volume+4+pdfPDF 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_off0000e085.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE085 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f897.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF897 18164 bytes
SHA-256: 019eb81f5547b2e532c06beb726b418f598f91e02321b98068f09287e6ffe8e5
font_02_sfnt_off000127af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127AF 10516 bytes
SHA-256: e1370acd0699bee1cf98b945728b3fc38ce439c50bb0ca39dd6b1f3e6eb2b361

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