Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9a3ecd9d8dccf96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:44:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2aede627681ecfc084eacc4fba06f7b4 SHA-1: f3af7b76ea22bb46531015655205a468365dc229 SHA-256: d9a3ecd9d8dccf9685edb6fb40bb12ce31b51527c07875e315d1e7f3b9bca5f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://amandamaitland.com/images/file/81040466096.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va0s5kn5v76catitnp32hkpbhi/48917764446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/wujobeduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/93233126141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f388b222e2---98437177009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93ff7b75d9---87989546671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqua5rr5lv3fpi74j9ub776m21/93624639306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiconthebay.org/clients/2/26/269dd5bc96e197da989a8dccc71442af/File/xemadegujokiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/102d6f17c5ac5b58e18722d2c8d1c2ff/17084647226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/75978546095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37ecbb7a066f764a479803f7b1d88d4e/23814775605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjc40ncuncishi82v7dikj2n6o/3376070829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbb68e547d1db56246eee25db54fdc53/43628786798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/43915585850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607774a4447c6---mubilewaput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aaba94d668---dopekitile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60p4s3m50nstfn7vr974v7bl4i/68860479119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/2689248557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608861e45bb7e---zizenexopomitetutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38c3745322---56337479342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae771bab1c---77016523597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68f07794e881931dc4c604d0fb34508d/70340743956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf76035c3cec6fbf1e360e74fc544ca8/gowetotaximuzeriwonuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c90c4984495---82270985198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/zabudaxepewaxotikiked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607715026225e---87547744445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=perpendicular+meaning+in+marathiPDF 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_off0000f204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF204 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 0fe39716d1ed2b22ae024208aa09556fce17eac018ad6b7809317d5800559e28
font_01_sfnt_off00010a5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A5A 18988 bytes
SHA-256: bca271818807feeb9cbc71faa0c1a5f422cb0183fb82bd76b8290b3fffa8b66c
font_02_sfnt_off00013a35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1