Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9525a5cccc8c4b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c16d2e9f50a8932e613092dd29adcef3 SHA-1: 0a0e39e517e87f3f3b47f53cdf738f59f8de2797 SHA-256: d9525a5cccc8c4b310130457987e2a3bc5c2ab395cf302f6eb57f0a167fc3845
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and the ML detection strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://csn-alliance.com/data/files/masugolitizapofawuwika.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/87695597322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/tabitubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradleyhillsapartments.com/demo/uploads/contents/file/bujafonukofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e48083c06---6731713129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/852be5b443a3a5ab12c80cd65e46981d/numisesudosutuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1cf7e270652d6b84687c86b3745a7fa/3506201044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/nexavokawezivuvixadine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35146629374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/46556362792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ping-property.com/user_img/files/76514051130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5563bd1a16---puzutuminozepewaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/2990480069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/dezamipolawirodexito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/4378110848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/witasem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/gejerejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/daxatotuxuwivakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/faxozomefesiviviwitijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/66393509017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6956143243---dakupikipivefaliwamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonsite.nl/phpcmsys/file/fikanogonitusuxovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8149d43232a8b93ef8228153038a6780/45324911156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+crop+an+image+in+a+circle+in+illustratorPDF 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_off00017287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17287 19616 bytes
SHA-256: 5e12edad3cb65e03dee39c26661808dd26d45c5c5725e173dde40c1e583521cd
font_01_sfnt_off0001a683.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A683 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 7f24a778293e26d9dff93bff63a6adb0eb2f468c1beccbb9baae392fd34b4fda
font_02_sfnt_off0001bfbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BFBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1