Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9ea537877541a17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 03:20:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ebb77090f7b344fead82bfefccee537c SHA-1: 65d2ab460606cb1b94678f682176a17a7140314b SHA-256: a9ea537877541a17032fd8f373be09f5af74218684b73b09577df216163140d3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the 'Urgency / deadline lure' heuristic further support a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=i+comes+before+e+except+after+c PDF link annotation
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/vevawuwubagodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/19308845780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608607ac91714---60740284338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce4c214f491---30332470705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eceffd93ed---87403159635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708cc8b39a6---69541728465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e25a7628e3---waduwemetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/708cf61d181afb7a262dd85e6832cc7c/vabimasojafavibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c099181a27---sekejitoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/63294564941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609639555e94c---fuwazuzuwixezabalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-7/20210507131300298719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/rowupedobusijegumusiloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d55984b8a---veguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca42b7q5bcmjvthk6lbchga706/48050574486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5809eeb48b---fiwizanovesawowuvizonaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb4e096b20---gebuxuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/gomufivorolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3a26a9f75b2b40c00bedad95e34e98e/56965837751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/fepemasagepipik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cmv512tc4odvj62t7sq6po1no/2718707900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce344ab3fd---99870118129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df98e73961---52274866018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/kazodebowelapegezaro.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_off0000f6a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A9 18368 bytes
SHA-256: c7b33d56a6d2273f051895f37e9c351f02eeada4fba0e7f65838bd022cac8d25
font_01_sfnt_off0001264a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1264A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E61 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 80d8b97bb1e36fd8000508673db31b370ec603244f04015898beb3c20f6ba23e