Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9aae5944535eb69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:27:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6b6812e1350ccd781ac62456d9126683 SHA-1: c5e31c4bf7bd799d551ad644265ddb6e0871f7ff SHA-256: d9aae5944535eb69a621e8616156b18a03452400bc3dff2632881d65bbfd78fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure victims to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=education+system+in+india+research+paper
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/36581612862.pdf
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/lasopo.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608459790632d---negofolibibemojaxawagenib.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9a4053920---17266429662.pdf
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/174421268a0f3180ff95ffaed676bf00/30971215569.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8657ec05c7c3d72766d0d1f3c1d1dd9f/21064997502.pdf
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/nukukevisusivi.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a176f57e9f7---39125806112.pdf
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160997f5f6e05c---95783291127.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae12ada5b11---pekaxupofemavokovegefaki.pdf
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/jovubiv.pdf
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984a928756f---70520595709.pdf
    • https://propactionvehiclesuk.tv/userfiles/files/mitupuxuv.pdf
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083df409e447---75398180507.pdf
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46da5ac47c822aa84b366cc6c42ed67b/foxawerutaxixev.pdf
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/25502701731.pdf
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/81062065557.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca16822033---48637546767.pdf
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/rapolito.pdf
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/palavu.pdf
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afaacb9592f---74144237217.pdf
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a001a639ecc---41211106568.pdf
    • http://vattucongtrinh.com/userfiles/file/24822040189.pdf
    • http://arslanemlak.come/file/fesakiroxuzaguga.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lt9s6m7v7femsl67gopftokncm/60686757914.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f195.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF195 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000109a7.bin
10844086da4bd24b7cd0efb60a40bd74da176bbfa94910facd44103e13f32d25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A7 16984 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000135a1.bin
4637b6426a4fd01d3fa505e9c2799d64f0a23bb61049f7458cb27ace7d1b7b72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135A1 10932 bytes