Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ae1627102fb2ce4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 17:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 853b617e389f896a3208f9c3160fc10d SHA-1: 05e4ea4423fa96682ce22a3b83007731fe5ad0ed SHA-256: 9ae1627102fb2ce4f6c24151aeae0cbd0441c884f80a40078b5df9511fef2d6c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or link farms. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code, likely for redirection or further payload delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nunolemavonirakabase.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cnn-logistics.com/asset/files/94252112910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a621b5f30fbc49543d215500d1289aa/41860510835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/66041865738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ao67vdaoer1fd1koqate9f9h/bafadepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/91614031782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/30474648722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/15047379862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021090523252597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pagodatalk.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/fosobazokebujirixizotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/volowemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/77716531559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26877780813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/papalitajerul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffotea.com/uploads/files/202109181206138388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42427437160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67794148979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af261d4b5a26f750ca3966159249386f/kokolagoguxudosinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naves.cz/res/file/67032836050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xnkvinatimex.com/uploads/files/77137040209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614161e81fb1e---dagowogunifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98e5549156a977e52f1f86a5365c8cb/37457405940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zapatosperezcabrera.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73958686208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/bonejazalixagexorafevasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=psp+football+games+for+androidPDF 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_off0000eef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF2 16828 bytes
SHA-256: e2405e376406d1679cd9d142220e75c3a24cbb2347fef2e80048b6ac21483b28
font_01_sfnt_off00011aba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132D1 10984 bytes
SHA-256: df640658bfe9abe64c653251a02ea94f19e031030ccb03621e5d75919d302878