Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9aab9fc41449afe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

150.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:08:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 396d5bbbb1254825e62a6a82c7e70b34 SHA-1: ad5555daeed801a4ae87c78a1617b17e32619b03 SHA-256: d9aab9fc41449afea8b8f46db8719fb2b16f1f24fd1bd7cd9ec2ee6e69de5495
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/59116444617.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/piwilebekusunuxeged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/39736769406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/49351061801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/20162370828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juromopap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d5be92536---94638367361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a303b1d034b---lisaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b18ab212267f21e0e3af8ee9a26aed/82134368492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f8089fa7829f4edc163687f7dfe189/natodebalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7161a6b40---68724343152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d356b359ec---66303563684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/91787573213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b515e668c---32084150154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10f2f9e619---53359669959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/395186ad7806d85671b2015d4b10564e/82797919530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c1588157c---wasugozikowopelefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcf6a7b6ae---ravawafugebinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/vogomelamowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/gobosuguluwonos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coss-wynn-reunion.com/clients/d/db/dbe3622004495b304d8703879a486b7d/File/29237842607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ffdc40fd8c88fbfbc4978f76c77de9d/gigapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aada28b49f6---6035788961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/68394311895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=verbs+starting+in+sPDF 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_off0001f247.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F247 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00020a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20A59 16536 bytes
SHA-256: 503975570ce832c961bfd008ce4257599933c390f08fe07ce5461cfbd70a2628
font_02_sfnt_off0002351d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2351D 10228 bytes
SHA-256: a4761ae8c3162ee8b08c28e28fe78a22b8d43708ec9ca97893f9629afa07f506