Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a091ada34ecfa484…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 11:03:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 74cbbb249c1a854a7f26924c2ffa25b3 SHA-1: 918bd009d1ed166dd6cb2df66df65a04fb3c0b7d SHA-256: a091ada34ecfa484981853a8602886471d62431374183b5afce862be1129ea08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and link farm nature are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/norasizar.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/zukemijaxumelufatotosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurybaths.marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/kojotasijalofiziluzujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kltccompany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fujetolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsace.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68628165663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23464453693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/sataferukutedajeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/xemizujuxenutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/15831041865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjt0suh30ip5m268ui7jo9bki8/73374273265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnnjhansi.com/userfiles/file/97562307712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.info/userfiles/file/86425830321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssaisarang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetarepusogibixasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/jibirutoxuvusunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-c-t.com/userfiles/file/velenutimanuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/lekipamur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sijapanose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12fad783e0096d460d2ed0c14e6349d5/medenajaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/butup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bankubezpieczen.pl/userfiles/file/75069596722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/ramanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wlpp.net/images/blog/file/41646746644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/91562688772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daa7ed82760430889b2a12f18c70e2fe/43941509059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/65594423038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=car+racing+game+multiplayer+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_off0000fc9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000114ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AC 17360 bytes
SHA-256: e6df15ad7f9896598e1548691a407260d7be7fee9b5d2055b1f2a3c7c7b56281
font_02_sfnt_off00014135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14135 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 9765225587f0bf0a53a8afd27f06e82b399a813d6fc2a3ec1271866d7be522c8