Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9453ac0ff71a6652…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:17:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b407341315bc02ef08def4b07c5d89bc SHA-1: ffcd203d99e73988953ca71a37aff6446f0be1e0 SHA-256: 9453ac0ff71a6652e8c7e876fa3f73b94398615a6385c01591115d783a95b0ab
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. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these link farms and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://bedrucken24.de/userfiles/file/dunipatudoba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/89402262991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgi-vn.vn/app/webroot/img/files/budimosemiviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136640b394a6---40264648688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/29594761708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sudeoksa.com/userfiles/file/20210920121050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/palofipuxidojosabejadem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/pabupuxokewanemotejevoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expomediainc.com/upload/file/86677795701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicolari.it/userfiles/files/bodebakevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometgroupinternational.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14200546996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/zepuzusaniwubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myoffice2561.sesao33.net/UserFiles/File/masuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haciendaloscipreses.cl/upload/file/63113465476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/55222603936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepovozebesebize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77564819318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xpress2.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19694596406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e191c459323b302650e3f49ce9e0a18/53717984922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjseah.news-read.com/upload/files/pujelirevulakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fi8vbnrft971f9ioms02n6kbq/dejunaxejusosudare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babycloud.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/50599507153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=watch+jurassic+park+123moviesPDF 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_off0000bd2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD2B 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 29344e67780880d87cd297ab29a8e632d06239d979400213373c0ab35f6d9986
font_01_sfnt_off0000eadc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEADC 11212 bytes
SHA-256: dc1900194d7f0e65a5301f50cb3e04db99dc5bf8640b9b572470f8ddb2c564ee
font_02_sfnt_off0001054a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1