Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9630c87e3c6c1d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:29:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8c2f0131adefc776b3f8c7cea904f122 SHA-1: 5c02f6b3239b6ac72ea1e101f7229c8c4334973b SHA-256: a9630c87e3c6c1d4d0215369c4e4ab161f949d6f6adcd67590885290e0cbd2f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and a link farm indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious external content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=excel+modeling+in+corporate+finance PDF link annotation
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/291ed50b003141b098fab6cc9cd341e1/68630645968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/626268968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/23449842459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/21612464274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf544c458a---votenazebajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rml536bhopnscpsb5qk4jmk3d0/zaligilupaxunijopipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/jesigazose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/lojujoziwigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/wavadugopone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094078685f7e---guxutubasuwaworekitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/89718197477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608030700ce59---mibexawofitif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769bb7d56de---81482837265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungbuloon.com/media/ftp/file/rekofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ixiu-23.com/uploads/files/202108211707074684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/userfiles/file/97648832140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roleco.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/sobotujowemabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimamura-mail-order.com/userfiles/file/56385446204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/25551278434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98df737c21528a0e71f5a6fe77c2af9/zokiramixumidusopolezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8f2a62253668a3fc88254b680898522/fovokavovolaxenibodogejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaphcm.com/luutru/files/ruviwujevotavirexulaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e33d5956cbc6f15e32444f41056d2c2/vebumunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/borebodawubojawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benhgout.net/uploads/Files/file/sunodajuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c62d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC62D 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 78ea73b112dcb5c36a0dd2801a4d705457903decb3613ac2d27f062a30266af8
font_01_sfnt_off0000df12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF12 16648 bytes
SHA-256: dad640010e1411f68929c5d67f0e3cb8cfe3ec40eaa78fb482188db1bf5be4b7
font_02_sfnt_off000109e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1