Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9ae38ae5ffcc294…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:52:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 72e4e50a5fa84fe0f5604f801ebce939 SHA-1: ae1de05c49b197a4d87470eb63639c3dbf54adad SHA-256: d9ae38ae5ffcc29464d7d8ff0a86c5af5ad8750caa01118b2434b04bd6e8646a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this PDF is a link farm, likely intended to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb44da2325c0f05d04f26609425790dd/26369141210.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xatrbio.com/userfiles/file/gosemiwiwuvezudupavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/vatopikukupekaxanuroxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858ba9603c7---duzagezobezovivegarev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-serviss.lv/userfiles/file/ziruzozevufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjf4565u0nfkcfrlqe1hfp7tiu/mawakujibazolawukaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathayred-csr.com/img-cathay/files/xobonuzumito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a6770f8cf---51562981582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/249e1d96f0c5de819fe58ba7f6f3c43a/tibanakezatif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/zerilimuwutev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc4566755f---80515984257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93521876012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f29a1a64723---37609086083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rl4tnf3aos1gejmnc29nks6so5/13463418612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc0f311eac9ae26159df906d4061cb25/xonitugijunowanuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lasedakozexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drisraadentalcenter.com/userfiles/file/34041697841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fvecn5td167ouc392hknspve0/bexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/sazugigutemikome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/xeninosogokaxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6db3b08c1efb06511ee53edd49b025f3/87079681429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fizegiwapuwanapubexatobux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/32220151449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92daa47f268e9012acdf48a7435619f1/31957839646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sentence+connectors+in+english+grammar+pdfPDF 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_off0000f3f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C0C 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 08290806450fa82256d8d4d43598ddfc28a7deffecb320d95ddd3f4301acee01
font_02_sfnt_off000125a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A1 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 6da43c84a6d0fd6fb6a31b3272895c674ba1a4b19011eff13613b5643e406c81