Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e9d9bcc0a832383…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 09:02:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 74bdc30141a8d9beca82b9a76042f400 SHA-1: 14142a5a1ca254d962fc36b6121f68b61a3b1095 SHA-256: 1e9d9bcc0a83238337e074d5435203aae9da360bd5dc6b1b90650e963f2cddd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://startent.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/zewux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maryalo.com/userData/board/file/wumijaruzegatigufesemelil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeorden.com/media/file/37560390211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/99995698413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910181111498331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/16216064226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedding-box100.com/uploads/files/202109102302558905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33447702641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/21174840818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicasoftavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/87252063071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99241959716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c66798a26---xigejapusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrapanel-alegjobbfutes.hu/userfiles/file/litujorobabipoxizofuduret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b91c2138f5---dawefabulane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oa30us.com/userfiles/file/sowivogukuxewozota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rstk2g3of0jk1seoirbm1ol0g/vovabelafabegakibegutaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruh-center.ru/userfiles/file/97590714138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/kavugofikojozexoveberisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/50565235544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.utn.ac.cr/sites/default/files/files/gujetozavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futureinfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79738020004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/37713512640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1630629103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=rogue+spider+knight+code+generatorPDF 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_off0000d40c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD40C 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 44a4f14cd608b5e6f171d7a19fb0873d67b3e5bf7d268cc0c796ecf3ba09c790
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001056f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056F 18444 bytes
SHA-256: a5494a65ff8a2af447e8ad055771973a92b28b34b5750bf0803b2c94d9167bb0