Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9cc33a9feff5bd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 13:47:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 88ebda76c69a35091b4004090bce8705 SHA-1: 52eab1f8005e3b0239a6f62a28521dbd9499afeb SHA-256: a9cc33a9feff5bd7b55d0892ac5aa5f7069e74ece3f2d7158b5c00474c660e71
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as redirects to malicious sites, aiming to deceive users into downloading further malware or divulging sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbc28973a72---29021753293.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7e94dc6357---30166568203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/99746280375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/mamemekasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/zepenijojogewuvebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e56fa9e0e4---13982943756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/9674536622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ablerexthailand.com/userfiles/files/73280722468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/kamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobn56.com/UpFiles/file/81123678846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/us8dku7fc4grik8e8qbhemc8l5/44519434081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/52947901279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607576d6aabbd---17144917206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/045a17aa87479fe3cecf1f759cf00d57/mazudobazifiwirerame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/95214598835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/77349525764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/24409827780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610570d3bd142---47867047588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/63922186407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahu4siqco1gd2ct8f7p4dro7u2/vufaxinupugetupuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86765838470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a392bc16998fa43b08df5764def02e/guranug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/612e2b17906c1a9c9b26c655aeb4568f/3118018217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=satirical+comedy+meaningPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/vumoxotobolexuvi.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_off0000f92a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92A 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 5b3f0a66704d101b367fbcebf2ab3320af0be3d1a23c7b5f8f003b34a0b22597
font_01_sfnt_off000111a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A1 17364 bytes
SHA-256: c9f7a3b06863cc3c65a672ffadd53836c1ebff0c679f68b22bc67e0aed743eb6
font_02_sfnt_off00013ef1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1