Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09598907234f0f13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 12:44:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3a7a5c3f2089a9f045814154438e698e SHA-1: c44be52baa5db923bb656ec211a5f576e29505b1 SHA-256: 09598907234f0f13747427436206b8d3d63c25c399bb79c33b1b25bea2ad5040
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous embedded URLs point to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_QR_LURE' also indicates the document may instruct users to scan a QR code, a common phishing tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mega+millions+scanner+android
    • https://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/88667717946.pdf
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c497a64b097f38b8e5fb3df7556a52/72782156756.pdf
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/72954861057.pdf
    • http://regimhotelierbucuresti.com/images/userfiles/belajodagakirav.pdf
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/xifivesamaxurexusunivonu.pdf
    • https://dhesient.com/media/lapuxozukem.pdf
    • https://narellesastro.com/userfiles/files/7419987741.pdf
    • https://duongthuy.net/userfiles/file/17639688745.pdf
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tokawenazotazag.pdf
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/9365461518.pdf
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/debewisanoluwenudomorel.pdf
    • https://ostrichpharmaceuticals.com/userfiles/file/96010390347.pdf
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/85522532281.pdf
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/81701541292.pdf
    • http://www.otevrenysklep.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lemunom.pdf
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/wirosizilareliwawevazu.pdf
    • https://maritime-models.com/userfiles/file/xisamixadevufuwuzenor.pdf
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613810b3cc782---71249464805.pdf
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofurawofunilexaf.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/676e76203d19b118d2fcfdc020d2b8ae/puvuxozowuti.pdf
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/puvekebimomi.pdf
    • http://demo-enriquemora.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/punuzesupuludasar.pdf
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/furozari.pdf
    • https://rippa.pt/files/file/bogibemuniki.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_off0000e5cd.bin
406402d04cc5e7bde4196a98fedac2abf33b43b47583301c5e21356db62e0672
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CD 10608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdbe.bin
07345b40c74913b2c5995faf2352a01c0ee37ad21875b8a41b361d9b8086691d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDBE 18712 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e85.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E85 16792 bytes