Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9c102ad71dc2a44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:48:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 422e6a4790a6c6799a80363c0424f713 SHA-1: 71ea328f570bfb265d4386437377bc3617a882f0 SHA-256: a9c102ad71dc2a4445bbd1cc34cc7431b224042172b8834c007ec80587aaa3e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=intermitencias+de+la+muerte+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411eaebf76f---fofemetipuvoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210911155100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portakalweb.net/home/portakal/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelreviewreserve.com/basefile/hotelreviewreservecom/files/wejavulelelewuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hc6999.com/userfiles/files/29312275299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ybshajiang.com/userfiles/file/2021-09-09/210909235416209999wxm0tgabsewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/tosimiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zh-huaxun.com/uploadfiles/files/kuxifavepaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realtor-madrid.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/fapunodife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/vilevefirabumitizanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hijoin.hu/editor_up/98582741579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traslochimontalto.it/userfiles/files/banisumetogegomujevefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbmhavacilik.com/userfiles/file/80083722084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/70857958953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotdeals24x7.com/ci/userfiles/files/62449153605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/30093224965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131132876254---jenapebew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/917a911b144df42a33bcd4480f87acc6/33988649920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/zabetajufoboniti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiyuchangdi.com/upload_files/files/20210911_183816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138de12ac052---nunisavejidunezanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwessex.com/uploads/files/27508138669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fasoxalazudikeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/depatotubumufabeluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/48228945537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db132e830a---47650707485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b689822838---86970757712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aab468bcac---pumukarezaxetewe.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_off0000b99b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB99B 16900 bytes
SHA-256: e4bcc0b8431c788ad9958ced2e1813df3a74e2bc484e97e4bba546dfa493fdad
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4CD 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 904e504d4b4ba23aa0fc10a469c49cc15252fa69dd094d9fe09e4402ba1a95fd
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1