Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9499401ec1ad5a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:22:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 111ec55e5bf9aa3b7a26c7b692246b3f SHA-1: 082d168d33584b30400ee86f5d4d8249ba54b147 SHA-256: a9499401ec1ad5a4c8dbf4abd417dbe10e89eb2d3198baa9e8bbed97f0087ca4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the ML classification strongly support a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=net+framework+3.0
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents/files/54753293524.pdf
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210901131916_3vy48y.pdf
    • https://eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79613555573.pdf
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb155e2f12---33837826988.pdf
    • http://maradonasalud.com.ar/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/badawewatisixavi.pdf
    • https://eltdb.com/UserFiles/files/falipape.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613067847382c---71777282694.pdf
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441e03e582d---32791057397.pdf
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/winifezomizizabinazexute.pdf
    • http://tumakuruvoice.com/tumkurvoice/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibex.pdf
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/67327232125.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/gefojavijubeseruzukomenos.pdf
    • http://studiolaviano.it/userfiles/files/18369935880.pdf
    • https://shieldtech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48191123557.pdf
    • http://spartapr.com/images/upload/file/tepizewiv.pdf
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/17468357733.pdf
    • http://adwokaci-pila.pl/userfiles/file/rirafuwewejusiveto.pdf
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f921f3a06b---60405476288.pdf
    • https://detectagsafety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jadorerisibanid.pdf
    • http://demirlermetal.com/resimler/files/5574486634.pdf
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdcebffcc9e0f9054996edc87d0436a7/70093490328.pdf
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/97626876167.pdf
    • http://esipro.be/userfiles/file/lenegobizo.pdf
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/62514148566.pdf
    • https://silverlabpupsforsale.com/userfiles/files/53192691990.pdf
    • https://bluza-shop.ru/content/File/rotosute.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dca4.bin
2416195dc6af877b586c35e5ff6bfefd0f0ed512ec66568659f05096628625f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA4 10480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010cbb.bin
2eb9baa6a75ab467a58d65059fced37250466a780dbbedea61ba170d9438a5c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CBB 17948 bytes