Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9014eea4c9dc90f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 09:26:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 82dfdb1581bd6d250d6918aa60a3e59f SHA-1: 7218626a0a24149122eeef4b082b96cc3e149aa7 SHA-256: a9014eea4c9dc90f185732843f871fc816a76d119735da8f9451475f3a155c60
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick the user into downloading a password-protected archive. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and ClamAV detection strongly suggests malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://brod-plovdiv.com/images/dufoxexoxaruziwesikovej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d24f936dce---fofewolupumodivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5kpql4v34msck3js23645blhd/90601480276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/zidojidaxeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5d8938c3a8f3bd222fc33545389a48/38570678546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5585e5aba48edd7b08edfb6500651850/ruzurizezuzufokawibubogar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a8d103f57---51064490071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/xumemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/belelexapulunexoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a512bd014a---mewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/bafakelikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/xebijabajarexipoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4774ce6c30---lalusadusolozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/83484838255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lelokuxukarebeziwenakagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/51102695383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/90647781137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/610d6a5df8ee85df91f46c82dcee4b1d/94944957390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontivo.ro/userfiles/file/wokamuzuduxaxulod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e5f2a14601bc5fd5d25abee6bafcaad/28402862078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/virurizewolagudapasuzek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6dce6f3bea9d8ec469cc8b84bff1655/temimubakopivogajasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/xutufivatusekakafejojaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavalabajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ocd93o5hmpbvhla5hm2b5lupo/lujuvodurevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=guia+resuelta+de+exani+ii+gratisPDF 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_off0000dbd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E9 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 79e479a4ed22603137d932b2b03f3229ba5ff4b633e84fa6dba48374d858cff8
font_02_sfnt_off00012181.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12181 10544 bytes
SHA-256: bfb3f751e3624b8ef0301e1f33b34313ec5c7168292b28e81ae9a38e0b292eb4