Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9a1f35ed9dae04a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 02:06:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d62c970e5c027c75b745b5e555327a27 SHA-1: ecf5163ff46a0304c7c2f5d4d10a7ef21a9569c5 SHA-256: f9a1f35ed9dae04a88efd4e10ef612ab00a17becd7b55979689c772c0a52929f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress sites and IP addresses, which is a common tactic for malware distribution or phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack by hosting these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://allianztc.ro/files/file/28358282547.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1t6v3vncirb05vthvr1oh10ik/nosijijutokutu.pdf
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb9eed7d87b---dedazejugemulin.pdf
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733ab13a78e---pulusap.pdf
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070253096bb2---77635482515.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcajkeodpruds01puaf60m3dr6/64728287319.pdf
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/96066530788.pdf
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/35962382148.pdf
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/49769965267.pdf
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/kakugugunurase.pdf
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/12675828876.pdf
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44061907583.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3dff4ea577---14729328637.pdf
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4thhip76jtuo7iqpo4o4t76cp/39627117592.pdf
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5988f8a931---gifutafepozobe.pdf
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/tigasamowe.pdf
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uunipnl89mh8fqr8lgg3n7rej8/27510554563.pdf
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2804e0309709203544da46a44d3274ba/retutojodivafunupovuti.pdf
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878447570ac---12171356823.pdf
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/pixozanuguwefasopun.pdf
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dn008s1d3hti1hpqodsntmrvu3/bogigogokonusibupipopup.pdf
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/34477653860.pdf
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/koziwer.pdf
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0f1c0f7ef163768c4b0fdfb9b43612/58483380075.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=english+for+information+technology+2+teacher%27s+book+pdf
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cda13ba683f54a5bc0537750ca0bad1/momipopiresizukogabojebu.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_off0000bcc2.bin
6a7705d48cecf5beebb02a7f874dd9f45b6b6c436a806bf62fc9876102e6d8bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCC2 11552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7a7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000efb9.bin
5d6d989564511aeb6d5390cc36aa26a724ea28004c3122be2cc326728ddefae3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB9 16612 bytes