Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f54c9a31284cd09c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:03:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 99007f0d458180d5a35a86e0c49466a8 SHA-1: a15ae71dfc54b5728dda8cd7b5335309defeb17d SHA-256: f54c9a31284cd09c2884b4a0345bfc6016c657b0f4e2315064541b3b0f77bbbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=deviation+in+malay PDF link annotation
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmhtoqd26vr92uk6lpr3tdd7ui/86397111178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-mega.ua/images/uploads/file/nesevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/93781634776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210520090908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/40893530583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qishuochem.com/siicea/userfiles/file/88722549271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce4250e2be---lilukofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7f3cc2926f---kefarovosowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe2d2cacd6---varozotiwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95439da12ca3fecad47ecdcab88725b5/40267336589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/69096303159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/kodibelovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/42032398852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/98741506079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20db48e5ec37c8548829279590b33929/35532005486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6t6k6se8u61pgfg1s5f9nibbg/firib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data//files/16521026267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac16a9b63c---79892853447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/nomexoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/laxoxijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fc-junajted.com/upload/datoteke/13981249479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/70377097822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investkwik.com/userfiles/file/vevimugemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb60562806---zopenopetubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/81735755115.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_off0000cb31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB31 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 4cc58ae020db98da708e7238248ce91487a55f2bae5a5d255a77053b9b3bbf00
font_01_sfnt_off0000e201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE201 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA13 17532 bytes
SHA-256: 640a752ebc9f357e32423b5d6570b449879fd31e4521742cfb3ac78b5ce2cbfe