Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9213a77b95247ec4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:47:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5d3ea2aaa2d9e3839a4f7a43011ec6d6 SHA-1: 86adc7d1d3b0b06c71b37ec12235fbc6be424994 SHA-256: 9213a77b95247ec424af843186597e6241b36c8d458e31aa77753ccda36a84ce
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 a link farm pointing to various domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious websites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing attack vector, potentially using a spearphishing attachment as the initial access method.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=audit+risk+analysis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/luxekekapedisofudabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef3437edb9c342c95ca25493f9de049/10641020127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114207485dba---61452996002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/25156569223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventechsite.com/files/files/jovorefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7990c2d5ee8e8c64a8f6120d2600ad7/16689725477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/fonosafawegaleloluxegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608163f78c7b1---sagikejajoribujudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundreaming.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acc4d057c6de8cb05c71ac9a542e557b/futelijutipogumutabuwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbularicilikfestivali.com/upload/ckfinder/files/35916628805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14484284145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728ae0a40f8---fagebanifuxamifosuxevolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607424d179cd1---43234569246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/tebapotanajomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanharteyoga.nl/uploads/files/64041477907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmkms.net/upfile_editor/2021/files/15407067201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/jokozerapemubuzimoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masikezaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/82128160797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/57193593127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/zuzafidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medpressa.ru/files/file/duledijemeviteze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f40bf1dedb221aaa5c27dd89b2bb8192/zisilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/nelusofewe.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_off0000d393.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD393 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA5 17528 bytes
SHA-256: e2d7ceb6230be7914707d29f5a2224109c19fc8dee0622aec5ff15cfc3f66c9e
font_02_sfnt_off0001180f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180F 10528 bytes
SHA-256: d45405d28623caae7a190f209e66487cee1b7e4bb48bc1b92f0d626c9d3fc998