Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b9e2dbd206b3193…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:51:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5157ac2e4718ab0d44767412bf4ee25a SHA-1: 25bcbd6bb6d3ff4fcb6fa8e7765cbae6f5d0c0ea SHA-256: 0b9e2dbd206b31937532b8cde60e239fc23f81d4fb08b58f2328e22901960164
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+can+you+make+with+quartz+in+minecraft PDF link annotation
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibocdicjq21qrnfeaugecsn67c/kemikali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/26618009516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://invismortgagebroker.com/images/file/ragorolatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liderzy.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/kajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/70394243910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/25536066115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcrlclient.gilcom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meberux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/16003540393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeyounow.net/userfiles/file/teguxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotakesasoripubefogaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dananeye.com/uploads/files/202109102116522645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoop.legreniervert.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89659868523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thisissati.com/userfiles/files/zoxupategafolagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142c19a1beaf---98549317175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peetersinstallatietechniek.nl/upload/files/sojirejineligavubosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210916003438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///mafopejedibizemagekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85901001777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/35538150314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fivelscope.net/fckimages/23043867355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137df65a4baa---61533463884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10657195038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904104649255708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/jopolonusili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136511311e9e---faguwezazazupiramug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specializzati.tecnaevolution.it/dataload/ckupload/dusamejemazutagojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facades-et-traditions.com/actualites/file/giwojeju.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_off0000dd18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD18 10980 bytes
SHA-256: dfecf92a16a14ff8661e97c829397693ed0df3e776d0b67597f1a4a0e0e157f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f68b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF68B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9D 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 1077201d0ce654a57294568b3fb256a6812eb7f0598a6c728a6cfcf1a742d4e8