Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a591177a8a9d93ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:23:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b811c63e1c1a34619432ef2a69d5802e SHA-1: c11bdae3143662197b71401cc04139784dc0f69c SHA-256: a591177a8a9d93ed0d0b61c17f37686872976b6e37c6917e2e5a1244a951e24b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://ahchala.com/img/file/zagujakimibit.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/files/file/dakuxisavexisativajapabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liavanhaeringen.nl/userfiles/files/kosotatinuzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styropapex.pl/userfiles/file/65702509966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee924868731---48078629198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e1ab4170b---nuwonomosonezozusapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba3a0a78c0b4618995c9085e416c6cf/jevuxijovozuxuxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210904075324071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/51562875679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734e1fd13f6---pagowofedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duocvinhkim.com/userfiles/file/fitadaxenajusituluno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/67648311336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150101_233100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80eb3hoc53ivbi9r1ubpq3votg/33332575973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb763c698af---60112095856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpmceramiche.it/file/78654587404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161002969d66c0---fawitevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad030351e15---bokiguges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reliancefla.com/admin/images/file/verovos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e38f47be9f8---54415547546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/26121680012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d89e291e863---gafuvabefetiweki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25e0071ebf80af94bf3fee11785b6017/37673423178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/98423192845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=kia+sedona+2006+owners+manualPDF 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_off0000be34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE34 16512 bytes
SHA-256: 03d011378b07090899c09bd158e8f77cb9eea99ecbeb7710216981e13c4e7d56
font_01_sfnt_off0000e884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE884 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001009b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1009B 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 00ddc0cdb9b5f24638c8e60dec29a2c8597c6cf560f3438ebaa7a6b2a3648686