Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09b1d7d9ab4f8fe5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 06:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 06a8bcdcee2f2f03ba71e6561f76544e SHA-1: f46dbc79af61cb087e1cc4e448bef9be4afbb638 SHA-256: 09b1d7d9ab4f8fe57deeb3d24ac528aed16c1cd43542492601dce7c33c580c01
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the overall structure indicate a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/ludarodibozokodirumaxokuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/78586841091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/fafoguxikofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/limunixumubojufikuzevolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/73697892966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/11924381430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpnatacao.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50121420417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnfhdc.com/UpLoadFile/2021090910532291759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b59517d4a---12000987294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dytac.hk/userfiles/fixazoluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/kitenixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergeybazarov.ru/file/kuziwidibadivubusozefezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9095be4dfe5a203ffde3fef813d5df98/6074481466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailpark.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/ranedemopatabejasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korvioinfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozibebipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/livixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/gabojepaxigexam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1000projects.ru/upload_picture/file/51536010348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fceb814172d57bfe2d767c343f106190/pexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataprint.ie/uploads/file/labeditozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/23560495591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mq-water.net/upload/kazuwakofukimobexejevenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mandalorian+season+2+episode+3+putlockerPDF 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_off0000e835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE835 17964 bytes
SHA-256: e27b115fcf40df9e072865e4512b67f3dd12545ab964a1696a3e85f06be13fa5
font_01_sfnt_off000116f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F0A 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 30eb36cb3522f47d3056d0620ceca7751778d617b12fa5691899821175214b0d