Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09769a48915f971a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:02:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5d38f7b57bffb91e43aee253c3fefdac SHA-1: 702c1f397af256be599e2bb3b33b81e8f6d7047e SHA-256: 09769a48915f971aa53912b5ffd2ce5cc72a192bd136bf89b60cba1f109543dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://hkxhjfc.ltd/uploads/files/20210913162135.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/13350247714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46043489931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/57649608897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1f7ef25fa74cb1efc5417690b016826/22178318837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/bipuzijixozamadetotutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336a73f131d---jurazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120511664ae45549067ac1c72e42fdff/busavusotoniduvizetojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/juzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/balexife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.si/upload/80884333867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebiz.kr/userData/board/file/xokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135918456c46---jowubave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://herfection.herfection.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210912141957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b72a399f02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/44029861611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372807c6c74---54020752117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/74670478390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144284eb351a---medumokumuvusefixade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/xajowejiluxolora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxbrio.kr/files/files/jafuvifopasosutazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/rudalilugikodade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodambra.eu/userfiles/files/24560839252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.village-gaulois.org/gestion/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16104210039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksusu.com/upload/files/rupuzexalake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=words+that+starts+with+the+letter+fPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD74D 17996 bytes
SHA-256: 633f17d1c801019b9b6e1db842157bb1729d4e2018f719faf127fa096a85ad2e
font_01_sfnt_off0001057c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D93 10424 bytes
SHA-256: b391cba10f5b3d97c4925f2ea4f8ee3306c300af686c6aebb157da1b8da1cf0a