Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fa2a9ffa5c8d1aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:29:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a856e3158ceb129fa2667cea68dd9a5e SHA-1: 13f9af6eee92b2d0228f0913d578788ee75d87fc SHA-256: 9fa2a9ffa5c8d1aa58dee0cea52e1133cc7bf63001554efb702edd90080f4764
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. These links likely serve to distribute further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ar-condicionado+port%C3%A1til+springer+midea+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dab8df7298df97e09e5289effe67915/40109596514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/8121100829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pizewetosanezuxobaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/gitanagukewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/30205888965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://local-atlas.ru/userfiles/files/jipelenebufuwasevepavofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englishplanet.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowarazolapopewoderogufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/602cf12e898f7ccc7afe3e93c785a675/72097454086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepeg.by/UserFiles/files/70110583536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a481834b949---bexuluxotufefijupoboke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/dusoxixatusaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/61470790857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://permargi.com/files/galeria/files/65488643873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/96449960860fa74a1d367a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770f8956ed8---69596584200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/4153962267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/30518165541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/76254392851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/21819965987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210827231844_f785gz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608693b6f3e1d---91372141691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metal-et-verre.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3474886889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tulsarad.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92544417521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/repitefovafumatimavusosal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/912uk06jtalhvah5soivr8pvj9/kemupopakebod.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_off0000e2c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C1 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 288dbaf55dd3e5f087721b034fbc80bc45482be4b1604d0a30f4a1a3a7db0c92
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC46 18940 bytes
SHA-256: 656edfcb4438e03f914690648d1141f10e06691247b3d2e285cf63f8e6c90132
font_02_sfnt_off00012d5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1