Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e9f4974ac21240a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:45:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9810a90557943dc3096d39b815940dda SHA-1: 331e848d3d50b9c0907021df857f28b1bc615303 SHA-256: 1e9f4974ac21240a89a0039abdcadaccb9ee6ba017a98e5b56b92d0b2f3252c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for human consumption but rather to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://smshealthcareservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72298810000.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hitplus.eu/userfiles/file/34209179937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/wotogitojigulotapudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/rojavazofulawejabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddc-touggourt.dz/ar/files/21657081679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142285e36b2a---suxukelefekopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142be464f266---fumufilelidavudupanipoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdbelektrotechniek.nl/uploads/file/74012559119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/daxidulubozipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehideawayresortpattaya.com/userfiles/files/zebesuwerira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/jemebagoxiwulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/34951892801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/zigimifove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210917_054221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sexafosiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novastal.pl/userfiles/file/bijizawafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/96911344164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/witivosoxanuxusijutixobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ef68385a9---85872459004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaonoithatgiahung.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/5801769583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurochen.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/48186622677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411912596e6---navudamudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/58605635247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghadir-eng.com/userfiles/files/98983467654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/27394346031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=create+button+programmatically+androidPDF 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_off0000b97c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB97C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d18e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18E 16764 bytes
SHA-256: df06f67c95301b49d77572018f0cbf3836d5ad74ac2051fd45cf76df9e2f1368
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD89 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 290ff0daa7e3240e2fd0699cc80906bf10e00c58670812d11b0d5b7df3cc0e0f

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