Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9d1c913ab27e989…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:00:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 885c5312b009744c575bcbc3256bb035 SHA-1: 66698bbdec308b99f45ae032244c4e306e39ea0f SHA-256: a9d1c913ab27e9890823a4306eed494e1818633794443a5df0f3fd8afc85b7ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to files hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or to distribute multiple malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://pacie.vn/web/uploads/files/fetuzebakonasigisis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://edanieltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210529_0A275209E034B8BD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/94580579536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895ab96ad05---datokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportcity.bg/webroot/img/content/files/44932271222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6a2a1e76a---4627483655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/kixudafijogopoperowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210713045813_ra9ams.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66864295353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.com/userfiles/files/pogubikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/korasreifeis8inh7c8blbgo92/jipugufaxakekuminuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/89736999878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.truca-taoules.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/pemaxakonerosezarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.org/images/files/fesenokotibalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2bhgd0escr65d70hmf6o2gckh/rilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garystrike.com/clients/3/30/301ae0ed988f9237e4cb8f8c41f6cb36/File/76567539512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kisito.com/userfiles/file/bujiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/2863034510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12744955986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/golalunuxafubutiwudekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/8344315496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wunegazofekexunikexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/58891610890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/851991d9df0a316a5decaced73ddb90f/41948891165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/51762974297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=tiersen+piano+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ede0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE0 21384 bytes
SHA-256: 811b510fb64fed1a4d3e96935622fa6d7d62f82d91aac5a6719a370ce47b54bb
font_01_sfnt_off0001251f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1251F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D36 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 0778a85df13ad75423ade03e958d15126bc8ea2d062f26cbfcf4dcc69e3b967b
font_03_sfnt_off0001547e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1547E 1888 bytes
SHA-256: 228445a3744f13af4bf84041e55802a923554d86926eb0745489ea117e4ab105