Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9254f1f6f4b20164…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:28:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6fb8c6dde26622c9d6746d7b783cef7e SHA-1: 1d53e117cc8f3b37e7cd8ec53bccbd66f56dc0f3 SHA-256: 9254f1f6f4b201649189a508cdbf264342b1a4d7924acc1ca722ccf2ef31b7d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links, including one pointing to a compromised WordPress upload directory, strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 http://uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61406775316.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/wevores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conviviodihera.it/dati/upload/file/dufofinuwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://downtowncincyhotels.com/core_degree/admin/images/cms_imagesfiles/47021521418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/dovaviwabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c897b66f1---vadufadidobevodosew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b70008862b---89163079288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weldcor.ca/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kaduzopilumipojumelusire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polaryachts.com/res/wysiwyg/file/wijovaranusulutedalolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b52091c65d3411ff183cd662681f3da/peduniwutugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musik-fachberatung-neumarkt.de/images/uploadedimages/file/ribadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajunowowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advertisingreports.info/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/45095775096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upaspor.com/resimler/files/puvazutebesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misr-consult.com/userfiles/file/72124317616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rancholasmonturaspremios.com/campannas/file/ruvexumefodipitagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/474896280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99100539699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210921154902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeyadhurgatemple.com/userfiles/file/99998831263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2f4542a561253013419463787ea646c/68958977513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.it/userfiles/files/93059758290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/zawevanesakavuzelajusigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/79782015435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gestionarival.com/userfiles/file/sutozijuzavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=android+service+start_stickyPDF 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_off0000ca90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA90 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 2053c8be324b40d2241a157731900530e1be75b4f2c59ce7c3c980d3a2057f10
font_01_sfnt_off0000e306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE306 16508 bytes
SHA-256: 9ccbb0550b6bc25aec88dadee2a49ca792f9b08e24691f81b7dacd0ac11d3fd4
font_02_sfnt_off00010d4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1