Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9da1414be3e6c09c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:17:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a9f024a2799334fb9ab259cd1737c01e SHA-1: 2dcfec178c187796def807cdbb847c05ef306584 SHA-256: 9da1414be3e6c09cc65e0a438e880139a2c6c6d12586d7eb9e5fcc3aa36d0cba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or further downloads. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads indicates a tactic to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=carteira+vacina%C3%A7%C3%A3o+pet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/71002933845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/dadegoxeguworeleferumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/zawesagurijedapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f5ff6a7f4de67554656912955c272d4/bodofowekudugefedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d660f78c435---15766127833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff9jjreusecfqtkapicpp9f9m/sukanilobukev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161047ae35ddfe---venazutofadiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16afbeb601b97e39032fa9d429f94f60/ruporuwunafelifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3af2e590cf0dfb4efe1dc0789dce3135/10801420895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents//files/ruvogovosofaxaroginoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edb982d88ae---lagujirizovupuvavubefuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/16963321475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfaf5892abd---17990136229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbigas.net/media/files/rijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/jakajejobizitixagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985b59dfe46---poromugulemafexexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/14346342867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c1bf5sg8rgo1ujtjnsl5gqc52/kulaxunanolagedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwibugigenijep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4e335e66e---12827255976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/98693059128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/62284998713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e62f6fea6832d3f7cfc5d9094f5f7f9d/ridum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8f5cb62ef8---nufaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibds.net/images/files/wotimizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d6a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A6 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 85c14406352f535d3836773ee3891c4532c8362605a8a832d2fd09822e99aede
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF80 20064 bytes
SHA-256: 066073d6e46bbb8174385b79e9cd509b5e4b6a6fe8e12c60f600d578c373ba42
font_02_sfnt_off0001214c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1