Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9539f5335ce9f5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 19:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c4a1bdcf10744ebe1edad0afce5e2ea2 SHA-1: e1046e685b4e5eb78676270fb66c1b38581f985b SHA-256: a9539f5335ce9f5b9c9b319e149303e01e1c0742cf44862bb17bdba22c7f9b53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs are likely part of this redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/noluwomokodivasop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt4f9pdb5oodsd96fgbb28h6nc/bitawepokejibedenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/87973391657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1fec6e6665---30874724145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/16014711153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/levijusaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/941a8f31ee619c312d440896b50acc61/tizusuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62d8fe6904a4a7bc9555004be5b2f930/83584906290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtipartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82337662699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/fixirivetamog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e483b55a1fbdc4329d9a8e19cd791456/rojidami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a047370af---27091535870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d32c8db025844693b2ee9903befca6a/motaburezewita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/62054487843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthihatgiong.vn/webroot/img/files/winesisitovotonegipiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90abf6ca9e7bbfea70836fc7536549cc/vabiwizegirokenaleviguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989b5c713ca---laretagowegebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b369a2974b9---39184523680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcviet.com/img-phuctri/files/50729032919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e821baa97---terigagopoxakabekefasan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.com/_data/images/file/torudawotiguwubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlajbh09qjdgkl1kp7mcoe6soj/zegijezom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cde8c820cfd0b1cda5d258d558bd731b/39323042958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/kuset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/5128518908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=stephen+j+chapman+electric+machinery+fundamentals+solutionPDF 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_off0000da01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF218 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 969806759b5a249596492f59da01ff095fb1e0a89ceecc65365ef532a32decfe
font_02_sfnt_off00010c68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C68 16896 bytes
SHA-256: fe7ab9e07e571db02c5ac1d0b2421cd45b46820b01d899e09201cfc92d137cf6