Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aef4c2869d96589…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-08-10 21:05:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 721f55987906e780707b16e133bfd3c3 SHA-1: 7fdf7efc8a80e1033b555c5bf056c08c6e4d346d SHA-256: 9aef4c2869d9658902936a09ad9b7d028a7fb3b671014f5c9040e7ab9394aac0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://shipnhanh247.vn/asset/files/nuxexanuxozubapadofixovup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b604f3c66b---judowomikibadifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanmih.com/userfiles/file/20210721215806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/84867624455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24169596324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b9cda049f---wukojegunodovofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c60865cd80---48744365359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/50652639941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/jixezobufezofizebelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verypool.cn/images/upload/File/mowesezenurodusesokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/58148085558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0192498700---tawamilavuwukobejeponesep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11aa3d16ac4b30f96f55ad460b4a1e0f/17130407981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof77.com/clients/34792/File/56420425710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchiseharbor.com/files/files/66280105414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/bemewozefifojofuwoxaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/12894830993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/605f5be0f7a26bf12718127cf47bdd97/37967055474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8566472e6---newufizobenutilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/73794401045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aba6e83f9c77d5cd358909a0086be093/82814160714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/291o6mnuipfkh4j4ni484jk9qj/fawadosexokaxaxobabevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/vivovafuverugobonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec745405273433788df60962eb2576f/49624776707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35907286157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=sonic+drive+in+near+me+nowPDF 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_off0000f2cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2CC 17908 bytes
SHA-256: b3ca219cb82b2cf25f5cd6e0d5e2fd321fe964ce136ec18e607ae64963aae542
font_01_sfnt_off000121b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B2 10448 bytes
SHA-256: ed5c652d368c320f871bea0f7a758dcfaddcf83b83aab97087d332b3050093ea
font_02_sfnt_off0001396e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1396E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1