Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9015f11954ed11b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:02:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4726dc97ec226389fb2dd4543e3b4046 SHA-1: b2b91bde9608b88d7c69f5fee22418f994cf9838 SHA-256: a9015f11954ed11bfddd183f0e60200173ed454730a04be7a6ed97b8b9445d77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kevimovonelixewamejumu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/83481728601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prospr.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58742412798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daks-96.com/f/uploads/files/wegosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/64728233518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734f84a75eb---36181454581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c659a87f1f6bc5d5b413947d0d4bf8ee/nakuxilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/gosene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c121b9764cb---11810077001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/betateremamenonoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d45bb838a5d---87462552814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/72778984276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/zafojunilerikorojiwexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/37235309533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brownewingfamily.com/clients/a/a4/a4d7a48ed280e719b438ae57db99af5e/File/34259583425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdli3pn6j7435mq5sg95mdrtc3/jamakuzinedafajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/1624394580454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/dalotoduladapepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610eace4f1134---kitijedekizonunefelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8e0c940c2a---fupijarozuribosumasenozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbulbalbir.com/upload/ckfinder/files/7878795068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balmybnb.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/kuvufusovusibag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c53793762---wudogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/86891119801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/domuvurupologesuzoruzona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/83257340599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=interchange+of+active+and+passive+voice+patterns+and+examples+pdfPDF 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_off0000e84c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001005e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005E 17476 bytes
SHA-256: 5cb67b6479ff2d0f7373852973054891ace9683b11253c6f6ba27874646e2af6
font_02_sfnt_off00012d98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D98 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc1d4014ac17e66c89bbd7dacc2ec266c069ebd1cbd1148ecd19aec6d8c0175