Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9006a790c286bda0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 11:51:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 77a585f4779df338f30576d14940db21 SHA-1: 24f3e36ddb7f3e316e5e175e218fde19482f5e60 SHA-256: 9006a790c286bda065203f66e60f78fa6b6c8f5f8499ad9d0288b4f7f4fd3ed0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gangster+4+game+download PDF link annotation
    • https://leganordavigliana.com/uploads/file/37245367218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb326dbaff---jugibepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioixedap.net/upload/files/71440291860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/zikotawuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150007.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210904061316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/97037233260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowsontw.com/shopadmin/upload/files/moxopezama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog/file/81065308595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/62756904183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d9733a1102---jidikefiwozududogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/dapilegefosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://righetti-ticozzi.it/userfiles/files/kifewusutejojozozenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onutglen.com/caningest/images/file/63490778494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/29092172477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewidor-gmbh.de/uploads/files/95410834788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enidental.com/userfiles/file/20210907032939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyland-nsk.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalofibinukudasewitexuton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b71ada3da1603b31353c68326cb8f389/74816331474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e847b1d9e2ccdad0841a47681217b497/10704452759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/mojevebefuxenawu.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_off0000df32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF744 18108 bytes
SHA-256: b3f4dd60e7ffffd6f5d5698fa315152dd33b7bfef146b33eb767043b757c8bc6
font_02_sfnt_off000125b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B3 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 5fc94028f957e9e854e748f7ea9c5f5174e6bb87604927b20be5409f4e7a4e5b