Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9f531cbdfc71b44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:16:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a3580148d3423760696224f01f3e09b1 SHA-1: 48b12c7269c222071e754dd54fd1ba64ccf5d0cf SHA-256: a9f531cbdfc71b443db1c5d3ec20c0a93b0c0f5fd922917747d0264daef69f3c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://netmode.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/jukubamizubotes.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9326480a056ff4fed7ee9dc7ad27663e/98837983681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79n44h70ag55seoaoo89e452f4/62316668840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28f99bdf7ba599cab1679594ab67ed85/58573616225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonvvama.net/filespath/files/20210825211033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/89041548260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/794066c66129f77daf939f526dac2acb/37100681535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t96b3tpgotftubi4pk57m6lfar/kixoxarezajajibatabinig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2e55704dbc4fbd0c4667a9dbe53dac3/gatonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/zemavaxebepelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/9882656383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephlillianmorrisfamily.com/clients/59960/File/kijabitafudogozinopojone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/11489670243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thinhhoanggia.vn/Images_upload/files/vuzuvakuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevkotodoseme.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lijujebew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teerosy.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/zajewenuzovotaxumarete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/24783367379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/wotuzesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c3e2fa0ec982fdf41ab88bce28f4191/32910974312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2dc8d2424c663483351572c3a24fa68/xebibiguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70db836b31300868873c0ffce17e0d28/wajubaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/tasuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53955798164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/kelatifisapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cisco+firepower+threat+defense+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off00013d5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D5E 18632 bytes
SHA-256: b3b3c611438e0e00b6d4530acdcd6995be26f0a9074ff3a95d88f7dbbe30ec39
font_01_sfnt_off00016db2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16DB2 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 928a1f43140443b2abd98f2619890630efecef16b3273f68eb39907cfe539ea9
font_02_sfnt_off000186ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1