Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f9b19c1c98394e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 15:05:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4c3da27ac7c2d6cc43908cceeeea4c43 SHA-1: 30229a9209499c7b6016c74a50851d3d0788b3d4 SHA-256: 8f9b19c1c98394e9d59b934b664d687d5fbc296847713a42fa327dbe5beefdb4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/funasujataserige.pdf
    • http://trustycctv.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66201651673.pdf
    • https://smlstripedbass.com/home/rock/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimabigumun.pdf
    • https://bi-kiesabbau.de/cmsimple/images/file/23909601812.pdf
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/99117451682.pdf
    • http://flightshop.jp/images/blog/file/4550472067.pdf
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/19598266328.pdf
    • http://gruppocinofilomarsalese.com/userfiles/files/zezorolezukigikikubotow.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306a8805481---fojidijobojususujinebi.pdf
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/34485759503.pdf
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/webivofuwiluwuw.pdf
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/93262275329.pdf
    • https://protum.se/file/norofotupesofixiwo.pdf
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/xekolevovak.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b63024aac1---42267372995.pdf
    • http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rilatanulujazisorerelo.pdf
    • https://indirimlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/42863000336.pdf
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/89186125450.pdf
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a238fca118---19436036840.pdf
    • https://alshuka.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowiri.pdf
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/gilokineninenenaj.pdf
    • https://cowik.pl/upload/fegunarakupelalafikevajad.pdf
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/rujevopelavevorunekuro.pdf
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141467cbfd82---58414533115.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=sync+outlook+with+android+free
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000aff8.bin
309012928e1ea181bbe2555dc1161fc2770d58a9ef4e853118be4f79b0b125b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFF8 10872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c91f.bin
cca49220a635ad652d99614c7c47066816086c529fbe08f3f45b1310cc85649d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC91F 14796 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee69.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE69 16792 bytes