Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9d56040e5789ae7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 21:02:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c8994855966c8343f34b26cd0176c7f4 SHA-1: 64b8263f24855b70e505ce66bb48902ad290dd4e SHA-256: a9d56040e5789ae7dce0093aaa8c88b735356978113f652d603708d296003036
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous external URIs and link farm indicators suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially compromised websites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=multiplayer+racing+game+mobile PDF link annotation
    • http://sieuthihatgiong.vn/webroot/img/files/zorasusexozujovatadufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8c50443bc6f3cec92ecbf5c65243658/memifujijupefivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613840912166c---lomegiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activsport.ro/userfiles/file/zenelako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getwealthythisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68313134333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10155479021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202109022129276579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/xibubepuvosaremopogetuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbmounts.com/userfiles/file/1630981413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/tizoturiwudowurojimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138709e3d483---80777120060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/pisujonazaguxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jokilaaksonratsastajat.fi/file/jirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://design-klasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/logujilatoriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheliabinsk.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/40186377097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9597601f0ad6dc65abde7cf9c190901c/73493639768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/15042995956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unovosti.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tululefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dananeye.com/uploads/files/202109050533424212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/kakudokasonaluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff547ecb3c---pufagodetusatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/38929187358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-muehlacker.de/data/tcmuehlacker/userfiles/file/3222933176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volker-issmer.de/userfiles/file/95437382457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents/files/kitiwojapabivi.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D9 17072 bytes
SHA-256: e818989edf03f333fc4d9c0464985ffb40d7ce9a78d5f37ebf016cf1ecc13ac3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C1 18256 bytes
SHA-256: c6d2a40e02af0b7b63dc2149125db95750e61537e5bd1e802d5d83834f8e831d
font_03_sfnt_off000146dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146DD 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 4d4492440a8f4b1aa4130d09f9d9ad958c71a5e7fd93fcffc6abb8f956cd4b91