Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9599c16fa24c2fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-10-04 07:26:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: bb59d2c1fdddb3b87c42fe4016f39296 SHA-1: 77cac2badb35be82edf795d7c5d28adbccf7d912 SHA-256: a9599c16fa24c2fb8efdd6c40de76363a219c5c244d85224b6a8787525496fcf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded links indicate a likely spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/61531593201.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://swalaya.in/userfiles/file/wumuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romovi.net/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/wufevezasobosukumivubobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f23cb266756949684aa7a165232cdcf/5826817488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harley.dataroom.tw/upload/files/pasonadepuwozewugozafemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158e3fbaf209---fizibilarubaxovodudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ordermorestuff.com/cmsCart/upload/file/pidoxexefejatuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drcleancenter.com/uploads/files/202109270754138053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135dc71234a2---91908363738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnalog.ru/images/file/84249550851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c5914da030255c3e3ce1e4f12858789/zorozebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbb00e6844---maxomafopemikizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/gigakosuxowoxuweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transportdiverse.com/uploads/files/36095616031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzakocakoglu.com/userfiles/file/zapegomatinodavowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/nikuxosevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbasantresidency.com/uploads/41288462104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/dijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prettygreekvillas.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectofile/fezitesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/66633577355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cda.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82811730594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personal.sut.ac.th/chantira/port/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23867229626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615011bfa8d71---riduketafabavemawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/kamule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=north+country+elementaryPDF 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_off0000b38d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB38D 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 5df9efd68d6d294937aaa9376b0ec4d028aa9b17afbde417ce91be97a018198c
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE321 14176 bytes
SHA-256: ad4363d0704d8d1aeb2196cae25a79ce559a2c780b2b58c804078753377a43aa