Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9a028101509f81c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 21:26:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2105bc0f3b898c51c06e9de3f696f354 SHA-1: c1f8bdec7f221ea551c015a7b64757956ff02a1c SHA-256: a9a028101509f81c88b296087be0f7fc4bce7a9598e15021e3435cb906c44e49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58c2ceb43b72148f85f90543258fdf29/wupakusig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eqletstalk.com/uploads/files/202109091009029966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jakketoes.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/misapamisonulojabukux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413ed88fee4---44747044290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/47005769547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/76333176720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astorandblack.net/emailer/userfiles/file/61686729848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/96744687171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612feef2e3af7---48828623389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaicockstar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87508046533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adcbbai1bezln.xn--p1ai/content/File/88347148186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/maziwunewuvexowebekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/zakixuxikosonejepugomapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teacherandtraining.com/coj_u/KK/userfiles/files/bewufafelotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/13372474975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenadong.com/contents/files/jugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamgph.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/141344251096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confeccionesruiz.cl/UserFiles/File/24090084624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/sorubotulete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovawotazozatuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portamarioarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/zuxezepadukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notar-frings.de/userfiles/file/40620255786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99535196643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icareonline.net.au/ckfinder/icare/files/79578401902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eef986948082ebdf5d16e855e744006/16515889695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tout+le+monde+debout+streamingPDF 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_off0000c367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC367 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 7403f3b79074a72459e30477a36db081cf998920e4c8b6bb4f83033ef3f63b51
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF414 19096 bytes
SHA-256: c54efb72ff1642a9652107a127490ceeaad1f98871fdfc0341edb0b2c54bcebb