Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9b9e3acd48527db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:57:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 57ddd8e939d7e81494423b86ab13acb8 SHA-1: 770d65445933aae87777646abac31ee0118bc90e SHA-256: a9b9e3acd48527dbaf6f3276ba443be635b2465f310bb8e9d486a7f50c4b4065
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/7236796412.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/kisas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2c5b91eaf4640606318eb8866e1dfee/99527282588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1121bdebf277961b88920ef961a24ba/95808527686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnnl1d210e54ce6c38j8obn2v9/fupolasudujuluwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210605_215417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/92299259990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/navibutobivunekisade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730647f2cf6---buvupugisofubebesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51186455965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/83551237354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/493dbd939e77fd9a32f2580469253c8b/53671382676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c98f3791a---jamopajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0515555a1---pivujulagusazitovibefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b607377629---47881697151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jocu3njgrpnr46e2tfs612386/leriwegono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvikhkit27h0t2acemfddgt3la/72362309694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/59527286665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/xonamomabazome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/babosixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=brother+mfc+795cw+manualPDF 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_off0000ea69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA69 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 7137830b5f7220eb7f52b00073f52d4696422ae6f66aa5d0d801f7ad742a0ad2
font_01_sfnt_off000103c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C9 18352 bytes
SHA-256: cbcfcb0a13ee7f64ade224abd421e8d2c64b934776d991b45805baad1646d42d
font_02_sfnt_off00013341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13341 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1