Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9acf798d08f7396d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 917c9e95da9b68cfaef7185d412e25e6 SHA-1: de92c3829eead8d7394c6a5557cb499304e820fd SHA-256: 9acf798d08f7396de9b0a0d360cbd75f84e9a819bff1834ac826afc66149ab2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a strategy to distribute links, likely for phishing or malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of multiple malicious URLs strongly suggests an attack pattern focused on redirecting users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9786

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=shadow+the+hedgehog+rom+ps2
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dcbedd1f01d3f45560797d3acd87071/91510036983.pdf
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/1180161086.pdf
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcj7oaudfqav7sge16oibhe489/28264406985.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e43afb30e3b---vojew.pdf
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e0ae17a26---pizosaf.pdf
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/87352265456.pdf
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f0283207f---gajuwizajisejosizitudin.pdf
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/60139815714.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb95a53c0a02fc3a1d809d5788765668/zujubobo.pdf
    • http://perfectionistpaintingnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazer.pdf
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607461dd276fc---9961008637.pdf
    • http://vitalbafitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/sopimugo.pdf
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202106/files/20210615185504423733.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/sujobarak.pdf
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0e685397f---19124231231.pdf
    • https://parokisantolukas.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/mazumaxefudit.pdf
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b822fcb10d1368258724eac01aa82cd/22449022304.pdf
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6725553e07131c50b0711f30a00979c/ximadav.pdf
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92298d47db707c1414e22b3751a4c105/gajijenovenilubeworogad.pdf
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/55722458931.pdf
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/wixidesuji.pdf
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9f6e68a3c---taxuvixusu.pdf
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41651057652.pdf
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/05/file/202105241105494757.pdf
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/motutupelene.pdf
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5lomfk1j39vpkp1la7lpu0qq1i/63886468091.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed1a.bin
fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1A 16164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001028c.bin
3048f4ad1147592f0c45032d76e053008b3c88edcbab66f0f31de46c60448d1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028C 17088 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f58.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F58 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001476f.bin
26ecbab2ba6cb82780293f7ac89569e31bb885ff295fec4f1f8ba87fa2c2071b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1476F 10880 bytes