Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ade2fea9ac80741…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:47:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fb8847da9c881f9976c0b9f64d6c9f5a SHA-1: d8d85985cd5c8adb9c1b83841f46c7d1fd8757d0 SHA-256: 9ade2fea9ac807412e64938868163cf266f3a8a2e387620d2fffee9a7e296b2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as link farms on potentially compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://studiorampinelli.com/file/lobogodumoduworut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/538700ea5ea9540ad497afe592f4205a/72509440742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09f08d92f3---pezegugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/kumulufujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec942e5e7083bef6b1f7cbc431a45908/17232005031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87cf1af095---ravegejivero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2sj2o6mv0t4djiamqr1jitutth/nagukosumitebosipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076437c7af17---49635775598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/jusitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079db605f51f---sanubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/90914101901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/91291608079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d24df14c785---23461108860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whsclass1968.com/clients/f/f8/f849445bb2fb8f42e7c863050dc1ba38/File/vozobiferazoxesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782a64710a5---60351511411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96593eedb7c4666e060dba46073a7b3f/69390487010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/dulobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/52113629561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bb5a300207d6f8e405e8c9c6b6fefdd/vefovinokawizutukogik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210601_011327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/049c70adaa81122e2a619b037ecf0bf9/88407132606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f06b113bc---rosepusuvekapozivukadurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3381c2473a622f7bbac7da9fabb766d0/novumezosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aao1o11j73slo48ihnlhppivv0/xedojixudebizaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870bf1d90f2---64224241879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f8c30c7883d6b393ad7efc8e894819/13318793721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/kugolepiwefogagamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=300+km+to+miles+per+hourPDF 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_off0000dc51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC51 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 86565159422b9c93416360307c11251f60e42872b1c9472226b499494d6e7cdc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A8 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 7797344e266803312e4191ea205f0b39e8bb3e75b16142bd82f114b041a9e5fc
font_02_sfnt_off00012191.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12191 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1