Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9337b3410ae5bc03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-08-18 03:16:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 73a027772805877ec38431d7e054f4c3 SHA-1: a45b4b01ad9d38f671510b669e65e57bd2f12a27 SHA-256: 9337b3410ae5bc03a377dd37cae2acb85103f23637bde5d70d071f8852379b10
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised or suspicious domains suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or leverage existing vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929ac253e28---32844173063.pdf
    • http://phsbulldogs1966.com/clients/8/87/87911cb64b10f66d93d15f7b6e22d365/File/gunujupuz.pdf
    • https://raovat72.vn/uploads/news_file/98135984574.pdf
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/22869478439.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71b7829393365cadd3b71f75f9b87f87/54567506112.pdf
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/mofudokok.pdf
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/63674407930.pdf
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/rajiselivofotot.pdf
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/semavujefema.pdf
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/wilememeromato.pdf
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210612215029.pdf
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/50257811088.pdf
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/lixisurumebokomugajatuk.pdf
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gekuzivomolokakinomivezak.pdf
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a604cab8e---gexetixaz.pdf
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/sutipofapimedifozuga.pdf
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-25/20210525210758651853.pdf
    • https://best-label.com/upload/files/bawubilobijuta.pdf
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/55689375568.pdf
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086842d8d11f---97656810259.pdf
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/71887570133.pdf
    • https://giorgiosantinelli.it/file/kogupomaforinelojo.pdf
    • http://bosch-service-center.ru/uploads/files/90971290462.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=hp+officejet+7612+parts+catalog
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • 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_off000112d7.bin
5611d73d48aa0bd5ee7275c43354111d53f0e2c3564a033127f42f70766816cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D7 16548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013dc9.bin
b5294b6e46f83470d607ca98f931168a109a8751e31fc228a086c7eb38f89e03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DC9 11064 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000157ce.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157CE 16792 bytes