Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9491eac150669b9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:21:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9db995dada0f6c18d4835c347bf97bcd SHA-1: 684d8374a20802920d11362c4c645f2dad8a4960 SHA-256: 9491eac150669b9e3980520028444c9373f9799d1aebbc7f4905b948aa06ecbc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to external, potentially malicious sites, which is consistent with phishing or malware distribution lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cope+elimination+reaction+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/jaratelaluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkipt.com/_UploadEditor/files/giwabawanozifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/sijamazibojotezoweden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3322fec28b4a5974734df8ea9221893/55780178841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd6115bd126e1140ad094757df40392/vajewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/rufomubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81qnsd47eqftrbvgrrb162ho6b/zefudininedibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/zuwizalitidakixusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hladonural.ru/upload_picture/wojudatabitureribamarawog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b487508c1e3---vatekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fc0a387a5799e2d2a5f02061245d00d/favigexogubojefifanigome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozekiwatigejimunige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/10075772193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/noxukitedibizulifide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50vi7lij86lo7ur4dae7ibn4h2/dixatezegejepivudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b051e4a65b8---wavevadeperugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/lozadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b54828f4e3---bovejipuwotajekexama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://built.lu/userfiles/files/71787242350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/tupefalovixixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/revabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/85236979459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huescalamagiaenfotos.com/userfiles/files/51653976260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0cc71983b67d588975e1362aa5769e3/33565542204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecaaf7c8c74---ganepuxakosodovoxexizaz.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11571 17880 bytes
SHA-256: e8e86be7a1cc6b7d23b96ef630bd569cb6b87d9fe0fb86e787d428bf4533997c
font_02_sfnt_off00014387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14387 10644 bytes
SHA-256: b484031160f1ddae641adc663bfb8c3fad6a6a3e01eaf41c68d70147dd42ad41

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