Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f5ada6d249ba243…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-08-21 02:10:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: aee018dec7a2599eed9ed62f6f4c6faf SHA-1: baf926cc1a5cabc2722fc4f74343ea7da1302698 SHA-256: 9f5ada6d249ba2435aabbd6f76d55fa9c2491371f1a1e182373c7dd33ae32fe0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content or download further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://geose.ru/userfiles/file/39937915945.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4e979d7e6---39470556442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/labigeritukaxixida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef8fe38c9b---60324301885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haciogullari.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/74278988074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/dulajuguvigutomulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01e3da9a5f135acad50c4a5926e9c92/zojovopeduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/57944571375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandrosso.com/js/upload/files/sumozumemuxonefubuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/48997611332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lighthouse-connection.at/myPix/file/97102647486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mq-water.net/upload/77450136401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quadocdao.vn/uploads/files/gutoxomewurumigawowijuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210709142205436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/26856279046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/9251221387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/jufujukipuwemufovomiwuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4sontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/bovutavaxopizinafereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1815eb033a424ee7c6ec96070c3dc6f3/15876504781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210726182602_1982207974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d88a6f5ac67---20660776916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmd49thcml971k04tk16eorj76/96566444823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10a3e2351220068d09d58e14f66ae717/resupavariremimarigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/savebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35bc8e675d---10121044486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=an+inconvenient+truth+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000dad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E8 10720 bytes
SHA-256: be8740df371ece3a163baabf97a11eaf992048c73debe8adc30a701baa127013
font_02_sfnt_off00010ba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA7 16764 bytes
SHA-256: 955a1c7624a47c576ad4a2f1f2a88b87c884e5bcb46c73243954ccaf6f94507b