Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a09210d2cfe245d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:51:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 93fd2f2f19d9064682af0434dfc97adc SHA-1: 85730f2bb1651a540f360b7483ee5310ce58d695 SHA-256: a09210d2cfe245d2de4fb880dd68d8bf685032a38b55b2c72c0396e598c0ee2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI links and link farm heuristics suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kvar+to+amps+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/81794449923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0jdoo9o02igp6ckbsmn0mj6nv/82933996631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf188de6c8---69837959677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.com/contents//files/pegetuguripuponebugatib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65c38b5328ae281a72365bc5720bb259/4711327094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d057e3ccb830287c217d71ffc789ce1/91279653709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindatpeace.us/uploads/files/pejafideto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/surovojipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e7575a9b1---92984418319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15228672713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqp7lb38qnogehmp8j5j7omj5p/pomevaxazigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/juduwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700234c890e---27941689719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/mofewizukuxoxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nq4n33vtvff6h0htg6vqct7mhl/73330624876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawweb.info/mycms/admin/userfiles/file/33239966566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/51499667099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://missinternationalbeauty.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/18495564416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/24732719258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henskeschildersbedrijf.nl/upload/bilogujukimix.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_off0000e15b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f96d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96D 16284 bytes
SHA-256: ee43d2d92063ba659eb1094a323f1be0494b4c87bb5eec8e2af9616fda354646
font_02_sfnt_off00012313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12313 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 067b95f41c1ae214e96e64eb6f5741961c5024b207d8d68aad23dc5532052e5a