Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9a040362625a9df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:57:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 709e30476b31a12eee1104647972ff3c SHA-1: 9096f0fda8e4833b971ce6e90180489d75133072 SHA-256: e9a040362625a9dfb97459516e537e6b3b5b360f5ec7eeaf89f817dceb574116
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=computer+virus+definition+and+types+pdf
    • http://www.cottagegrad.ru/files/file/73642697537.pdf
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/15881288295.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131cc6d1a09c550726efe39ab0963deb/boxetonajebajubibepazune.pdf
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/96954065524.pdf
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/43844931289.pdf
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/faxisagusafufu.pdf
    • https://artofsurfing.com/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ledorudepozesarataga.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnfr3ij5l4968u9v9uijnrslku/lapokibun.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nuq7f62e8qe8u7elskb94lq4n6/judugasekukix.pdf
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/jewovumomevozubiwozoleg.pdf
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xujobomutago.pdf
    • http://huthamcauquanggiap.com/upload/files/72546911148.pdf
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/gidedebomugapit.pdf
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756b4ea98ff---molanufa.pdf
    • http://eastindiaspray.com/suvra/eastindia_spray/files/30733495416.pdf
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/10243486988.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084699cd6452---rajekalepodebav.pdf
    • http://rulada.by/upload/editor/files/39624531669.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9467add7fd---48021266983.pdf
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/witetudimujexem.pdf
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a390c5468f---732618245.pdf
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/19678278430.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6530f22a17a4ccd2c6aef270acab3fd1/xigikoluzugof.pdf
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/15928842402.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_off0000f0a0.bin
9761f8e2f7a838a7fcfe389b577ff1f87b557787255f11023d62d643b2fc16da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A0 10924 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a01.bin
99d3e7f6529de9c8ed188abc22ebe249084d28711a26b31eaa0a34a81d8a533f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A01 17580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136f9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136F9 16792 bytes