Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9cda3214fa55dca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:17:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cef4a95838f225b6b082cd20bcbd3bed SHA-1: 07a7d699bdc8c88c47b2b60abf2ae2a5e607214d SHA-256: a9cda3214fa55dcabd1299a7b240ab63d1ef7950e0ca6e9e661e1ea111d71538
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms indicates a deliberate effort to redirect users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+deleted+wechat+messages+on+android+without+backup PDF link annotation
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/39824640617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01e938571871214e66ca3efefda5596e/94498037401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20794321983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/65063342256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d9q0jnhm0ih5jdq4d7mb5q3tj/70057435094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://officialbacknumber.org/editor_up/44794016650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgunbey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/91261131791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67040847321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagegator.scorchmark.com/stagegator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bofimivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/32304630848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/261a1e57276b90a263c2e5c74d0bacd9/vuxaripikifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcc8a15e44---risuzibanesolunolumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geo-equipe.it/userfiles/files/nugute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/lawajapojitanure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobiachau.com/luutru/files/91591058339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/70560364342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ericshartman.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bekinopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adbbbaeqjtsflbfms0e.xn--p1ai/pict/file/wotejepakatugosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-recepty.sk/images/fotky/tokefinekelugobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbg1ddpkdc.xn--j1amh/uploads/files/bumaluzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shropshirefurniture.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jopinipumewekorijugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/volosegizofimipipumupobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210915_204611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d267237be0---88776484770.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_off0000d6f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F6 17000 bytes
SHA-256: c8839aba6c416db42f5fd80e8333ed87c7c8176268fa2484b1fe996bd2f1e3c6
font_01_sfnt_off0001032e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B45 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 76d6496fff6ae3502181903c5b6160f316cb8b9e93dda239395744e82979bf90