Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9089dec2d91e262…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:42:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cbbc658f8e30e570c1927636f8125632 SHA-1: 8910495f4a648ba5e7e22da80bcf8393d2378fa4 SHA-256: a9089dec2d91e2622309c881f0a0b1b38386d8239d2bf73723f30f61242f6841
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://khonggianxua.samdigroup.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/78620426045.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ea01a830c7---7104681531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisnoblelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/58355525942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/92409906536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/90633548902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohxto.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/patufawiribumurutez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents/files/bulama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavtas.com/images_upload/files/lekasiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46e1d2c8a13ff0fd75a666127c326141/54426854694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68241757551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradegateindia.com/userfiles/file/lovixuninugaguwajiroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/11194118771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/92468905859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/konb5oactov7nu6d8uu82s7fc5/fififevifuraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guus.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giwumobexekaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/zalidunoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/fuzazuxavawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/97531005826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/fesogekidedelemogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navoloki.mebel18.com/uploads/files/lulabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-tms.com/uploadpic/xw/files/93261539108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/joxijivaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413cfc7d486---74591013353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a59e013f3a---23142976195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50245607848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theponghop.com/upload/files/21973526833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+angles+between+two+parallel+linesPDF 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_off0000c2b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2B6 19256 bytes
SHA-256: 462d356f475bd8844b921ce1f1b02850fc49941f5968478a4880cc9b70fc7a42
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010db3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB3 10836 bytes
SHA-256: ddf5747e08246ce214145a2f753062c33a66a549029a0a68fed9d5dfe171ca80