Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9209b681b4c62bdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e40ad37e2a5211843f79251ce2ff8867 SHA-1: a73e5dd8d201bd178b23019d662858589beabb3d SHA-256: 9209b681b4c62bdc9644f7b577d85ba14b2b152f4b3e4f5ea8f2caeb7720ed78
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest the document is designed to lead the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://km2804.com/ckupload/files/80841744840.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://twtqedu.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/musonijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dd-inside.de/userfile/file/54599599409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84166e800cb88882edff8673fd653b45/vizulemoxabawobexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/66139449177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospel-pour-100-voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/mukotovonoxewawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/97194092684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctsw.net/whly/up_files/FCK/file/20210907_201627_148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spa-salon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6261697484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96316370784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff3b6ec4a5---gijanokawaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/29899486368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalbime.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/filana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artechq8.com/beta/uploads/files/43322480278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343e40634d1---67165351407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepedenavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotbamboo.com/file_media/file_image/file/11282819220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozora.schaffsen.com/contents/file/jidisofejavuvixusowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkeyinsurance.info/images/file/73700990049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/wetelunesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cantellodetersiviprofessionali.it/uploads/file/75498190678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/67984445204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dc359e77f---38839860355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48732018901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkathirilaw.com/userfiles/files/xejakavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rassadaspb.com/new/files/file/wuvorokobulebepew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/30594484696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=android+g%C3%B6r%C3%BCnt%C3%BCl%C3%BC+konu%C5%9Fma+programlar%C4%B1PDF 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_off0000f56e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D85 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 4b0956903edca265aa3b9e6a3ece2dd06a1161978c982ede5c095876ed4a505a
font_02_sfnt_off000126ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126EE 18832 bytes
SHA-256: c481016756a9ddf6e072a37e2938261c291b4afdc5d0c1b67b2f0ed7b627a2cf