Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9f21568ece78e16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 12:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1ac7e71856d522701f256540ba1e7ace SHA-1: 483d5245bf169dcbc4697ebd1e0ed784084a7b43 SHA-256: a9f21568ece78e1653dcedfcc0fc1ee6282f2e787cc6c1ee26c677025294b3c8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage further indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/xojokuvigajopusob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://produse-zilan.ro/files/61965566281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/467d6d4eb1b1de615c5f3c380479a844/1858904281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137069a2d588---rakuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptopserwis.com/app/webroot/media/files/39406485208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chernogolovka.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83532782657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ab33bab6dc3400f022391201f0d25d7/funuxirigiravenalakajuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e68momo.com/shopadmin/upload/files/bofatewuvisulevidatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-a0dcf319a153.breakthroughsport.com/userfiles/files/36010643278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandinavia-ex.com/images/blog/file/95966490606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/26971516378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokusalanodufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.martiusstaden.org.br/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38424658630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibestedu.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/88545004259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57806979698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29650459935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613153c9f3a14---8534726994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/36507558876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamienneogrody.com/userfiles/file/beripukituwagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tartak-monis.pl/tartak/images/file/detesogifarineruxipirefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamlaocai.vn/webroot/img/files/jolanux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mosoraxinubawiwusogariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdbelektrotechniek.nl/uploads/file/87771058765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astmasme.com/userData/board/file/tijososa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+best+site+to+watch+anime+onlinePDF 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_off0000baa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2BB 10584 bytes
SHA-256: bac8b2846070b74afae5e7f0e4bee20512cb14f9f01e31c2db7c13130e0c4b88
font_02_sfnt_off0000eacb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACB 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 0f87e530591d0cbff22250b0b0b75e887e7558da41a71a16ffcf3fe45d744079