Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9160ac16b1f9953c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 15:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bb7f5908362a768bb9898d4da5ceaa10 SHA-1: db32f6c15616298ac7da29d62fca0bf4018c6612 SHA-256: 9160ac16b1f9953c1be1afd4c6323eb8d0819b3946a5c4cea5937b181838c4a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports the malicious intent of distributing links for nefarious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sistema+urinario+pdf
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/166408962.pdf
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c1757764a2a4d06111812439f601fb6/53296225041.pdf
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/7812805614.pdf
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e5a9e48f0---dopanalojepuvodena.pdf
    • http://sancheonglittletheaters.com/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210921014719.pdf
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/20810003230.pdf
    • https://tnmkor.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_54202A8A568B2AD5.pdf
    • http://blesk-stroy.ru/userfiles/files/xowuvumujumaxibipul.pdf
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/94068686147.pdf
    • https://holcom-solar.com/webroot/img/files/34284737152.pdf
    • http://fusen-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/50272364947.pdf
    • https://rux-thai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51026492546.pdf
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/86887806049.pdf
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14474646782.pdf
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/74128211615.pdf
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/861760921.pdf
    • http://labellebeaute.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69272481684.pdf
    • https://galaxytraining.examinationonline.com/files/69886131288.pdf
    • https://sesconbs.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31626087011.pdf
    • http://eapver.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109161707429502.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffc596f8a4---bejabo.pdf
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/sowogasonixe.pdf
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/53011771840.pdf
    • http://everintelconsulting.com/upload/file/202109131606162403.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • 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_off0000c0d2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0D2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8e4.bin
6337967de2c957219168f6e74dcfa79900f472d7910ffaa64c5fa422c9ffde2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E4 18804 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001093c.bin
4b30a138a9c1d8cd8508f15141a99caa08149b3385127a6c5071c8e9bfbe6a6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093C 10788 bytes