Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9ab294748d97bee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-10-06 07:56:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 23e178bf8611ab0ece1f9da906c0c5a3 SHA-1: 529b21e07b66bbbddacbd0a052c407c42f58fdda SHA-256: e9ab294748d97beefdfc022a97b59f91226037b8fe006e7ccae2148532f2d08c
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 WordPress upload directories or are structured as link farms on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nata+model+papers+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://lederstuhlshop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1605318029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/93096839743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraswatishikshamandir.com/singhania/downloads/file/72463227673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/notonopixuvuxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/gevebirofijajutetikavawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecosdaliberdade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekoritenikojudave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615a664e5d41c---39501461980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arsvet.ru/img/upload/75909739398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomutewawusenulijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uat-tunisia.com/userfiles/file/31753236689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lgassociates.in/uploads/2831830351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/kezusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31249888617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volareinmongolfiera.it/userfiles/files/32257148079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f87c5145a---83127479643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.eu/slicice/file/kuwawokamilabefet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/juxiworiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/tidujavenujivika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9edbdd5254c9552f2038552127fc2f03/96217097255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.ru/upload/file/figudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/79583631392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615af2962d694---porikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d9c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C0 19996 bytes
SHA-256: fd8cdd5080a778d68b7d62fd4c794f62e4704049063878990a6a272b29a032e8
font_01_sfnt_off00010df5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001260c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1260C 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 9eee69f49bd5c297cd74cb17c65e5f7a49add108d739cb448f6adae8daeb6692