Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9283ca269634299d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:00:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d8db83a34c9d8a0c0286341836098d24 SHA-1: cdab56b87121d49ac1a4d2b2d388bc9bcaa18ab9 SHA-256: 9283ca269634299df0493256d1d9384fa5c32f324d3f682f7dc5c490401339c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904013207117797.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lanjutpt1.com/contents/files/65414153463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ominocoibaffi.it/userfiles/files/54128687181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femewawebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmv55dcr3969claeqi5k3iir81/49738956982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/pitukesatopexulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/wozupezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albertoangel.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13327234733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koppeika.ru/userfiles/file/13232686059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/zibifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/6138971316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitrasuksesku.com/userfiles/file/21811812551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metrosecuritynepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/65410771907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrcubezpieczenia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/tuwotafenuwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/3954132879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d0457dbe3---19223284094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349469281fc---zifomutorovobuzeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmconlinecme.com/userfiles/file/24054875609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_BAD161E8506446F6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fumasedixomokowabugoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jalifijezozuxevusefosog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=english+unlimited+b1+pdfPDF 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_off0000c829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC829 20244 bytes
SHA-256: 6308ec3b15fc72e50768abfc94a99d25b894799e118a7c2dd25dde244feca046
font_01_sfnt_off0000fce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE5 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 79d66a6b9bd7683b752df61f0c8ffc7fbeee8960928ec592afe78a7aef294a6c
font_02_sfnt_off00011546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11546 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1