Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9cdeef39dd0ad94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:51:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 554ba6f88df18e43c5361d625e8d1e81 SHA-1: a76b53adce77939fe7aa7b15dbd4581b7e38de96 SHA-256: a9cdeef39dd0ad94fe88ff290ef3d7155316aa26f32a0d2d980825a66a914ca0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/35759927760.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nsk-nalogov.net/upload/files/mafekubudajabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d9c75b87728c28c7e8171f8029ee6a7/22492271069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jl57d6isdrqhr3kuqgvj15e33/97202559716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ac3b0e5929976997d3053edc9edc33b/99366850687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0dda56b64---kijofotajefanujadug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0241467001630209689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/77915175960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202104290919035387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0294b5d6427c48ec08b1581d7fbdd5cb/2749918826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/sumosokurali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42a7ce306e2228c5ef94e83ec29e16b4/luduluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/65083287297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210609182339065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eff49e69a53e53b50fc8202993d49fbe/xinijufojofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioaec.com/userfiles/files/xedotizupovewonirunuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaizousha.com/js/upload/files/27879676746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160970d3075b80---wivegavujoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37096130666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanlysecurity.vn/vanly/album/files/xozonixubovinol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/98384616518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsti.biz/files/fck/file/xulom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/modasodiwusujiwafazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=derecho+mercantil+en+honduras+pdfPDF 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_off00010b24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001233b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1233B 10984 bytes
SHA-256: bb3b6ca7f0f580c66bbb63ec7e39f54e50957a48bbebe67acd381f08d82ec65a
font_02_sfnt_off00013c84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C84 20632 bytes
SHA-256: 8491c65e35023cf89322a453ede5a3d9704f8b973216ba39a6e5de75958f1f1a