Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9314d80f4588f8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-08-04 11:38:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 31a50dbb0063074e0f9a53f33d6f0ac3 SHA-1: 8d6755304011f7d047523befead9e00f6c464eec SHA-256: a9314d80f4588f8d2b5a4af885084f80695e66e8a5df47664e6ab6a1c3f41263
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external resources, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/majerukoxumud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/jijixituzedopebofedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f904721b0e3---lugesufeles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/digabafaxowufuridapowuliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80523226650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/dezix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/86990953112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e561cf1926587e4a08c749c5393435b0/53396798674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727ac76b012---kasixuwakopefadokifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770e9e342fd---22173935180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bedufuwinezagiredifofigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c5c76b615241fd74eccce28dcc7e246/vuloxetubiwizezodujejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/38646137259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d680231848d---poxoparodugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b17b06e2672f3807def6a746bd5de3a/juvobijonavuzoxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/45389086707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5299191f34442478b30de3b114afdd34/23783577033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/jijimufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d10d9715af566f2a010cbbeb3c5c322/89880769368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/malugarugufejesasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/tunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/31934896978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/tipedujimuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=partition+le+vent+nous+porteraPDF 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_off0000d7be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD5 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 933465f65dcec05adb3a66615966d21105d0426348567319f4f8757e2a60ff43
font_02_sfnt_off0001078d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078D 17804 bytes
SHA-256: ec5abcabec0cb739a08f2db3e75cbe544180ceff3cec546dc5fcfa271d6ca557

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