PDF malware analysis — malicious · a9df46c1bb2b59a0

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:48:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07

MD5: 8069ccebd3ba659f14a0177bdaaae189 SHA-1: d9cd61ce6d39a41150d2dc983fc6a9a6f409a2ab SHA-256: a9df46c1bb2b59a0c66635523b8fc530cce92d97780d2482c66fa1e61a07ae96

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF being a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, designed to redirect users to other malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this file is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0fa44f50f---vojonipokotiziwon.pdf In PDF document text
- http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e40486b158d---1508282387.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/agkt1bbkvpbt58ff3uo7gcsqk1/26408921162.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/75076824977.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889fc411eb5---58313251658.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/808b152064f13d457e5f217763844272/55647550323.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://maturana.cl/upload/file/66858326492.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3e3af1894---20775583686.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/25361032219.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://caratow.nl/userfiles/file/vufap.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh5ev9hru8a0a3jqu8f04glnej/9239901481.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/369cbddec3fbe265bb96d06cb5d02b3a/koruvepud.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridiladewuwevakovu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8040788008.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/nefosigozigezi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sagazubanadategev.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/14564543441.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bae5cadf55a787659313f1d70b3fe7a6/nipuwaxadebaroporaj.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/84543447443.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc2ff2b0716602c3136dd577b786e47/jifaforovalobusiposo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/notitifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/sakawakex.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611aa422c78a2---43355954467.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5e813e230b4fe145dd4203f12366791/daruvobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/301d363cfd63d0f025d0fc59eb5bc950/97021372148.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d34bc03680---buxew.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=two+level+game+theory+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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000fc76.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC76	10812 bytes
SHA-256: `269f3a717577d6ea94e6fd1f21cff8a2706cf3dae788ba50e97454e69be1b4ae`
`font_01_sfnt_off00011549.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11549	18940 bytes
SHA-256: `37da60d007675ecb3508a013b0782a7d0f4f04d366a106fdc8ce67d82f6187f0`
`font_02_sfnt_off000146e4.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146E4	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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