Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9ed884ea00d27e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:12:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9f75eed8df0092a0613bd264b7d30e35 SHA-1: 897322ccd10ee9072a3682fea4ce0e50f3bcb482 SHA-256: a9ed884ea00d27e106815f2b37c11ef37fcdc32bc3f3eb35ac08ded682678ed6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains malicious content. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. This suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/13971835126.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/91315668052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/43584904908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagominum.com/contents//files/vafefefesifeloneretuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vadihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/49904191270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db4d7c2f8d9---33226541741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099de058df69---98738740614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/bejiregijeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatandcompany.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91238749041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8a968cb66c6901ec7fae2d5fb7f6517/19480522676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161155eab025e9---19539626651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/15890064891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fae22e54ee2fdbdf0276c3e5727fdb61/zevavobupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/75808484740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirai-kankyo.com/userfiles/files/65624136055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapiadinafelice.it/file/53869673726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2cd18n8fdsm0he1cjencoj0j6/mamurulekejojajovujafurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fce3175b4a7199dd6a9eebfc927aecf/buvesusaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079354c53c24---80122971090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebda0bb7e8---bajubaponomam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caaaac2ea1306498edd16816b900f4d4/93846062756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtnhqt20oggsmhvq775apa9pk0/29985263878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/75443445123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/jebupemalubomusaguxese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=cow+hoof+trimming+costPDF 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_off0000c647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC647 15968 bytes
SHA-256: 0760c889b38449b0fefeffc0aeddb206e91ed69ea0e3cf92537d985c09b926d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000eecc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECC 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 8f830f9e22da035f543390e92aaa01ca4a14cdc7ff41bfc2b8a2f1ae24d72e99
font_02_sfnt_off000106cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1