Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9030e3ddca3883d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: af5dc3b1aa0ac31fbc759098131b2a33 SHA-1: 119b11617ea5c0e128a238097aacd3edd4a4710c SHA-256: a9030e3ddca3883d66721e6c4351b6157c1796d37c6869d17435866b59561737
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the PDF is used to distribute links to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gfx+tool+for+pubg+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://strategieb2b.ca/userfiles/file/49605075712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/kixojivukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/fajemogumeremanutol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383d233ff6f---gekimipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/rusuvalomudupimuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/12857364286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog/file/52123824361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desushibar.com/userfiles/file/vejejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/neselogukibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalbizkorea.com/userData/board/file/41223865179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89315403886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45344893999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e751e85792---96893251758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vip-cond.ru/userfiles/file/58207177898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f92365dc253384ade629af24cf1f804/36909316491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614719ccdaae5---23671300118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duel.pl/userfiles/file/pevikelojapuraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31939191275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/jutafebotaforanajikusodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/11272940233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309dd2b4c16---1941498526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/vubemove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_31B50065DB6D0A0C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taociren.com/upload/file/210904125633728252yb8for2gnumy.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_off0000cdac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDAC 10816 bytes
SHA-256: b1de141edc35096ec230f3e71e916f30455d26215d7d865a24ca8a48685ce17f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE644 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE56 18368 bytes
SHA-256: 455dabc56cce87db865e85f639e33fbc50585a7e30968894490125037d15fff0