Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9519fc42b2d68e99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-31 17:52:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0746e5e31875224b5657868edf480dce SHA-1: 8164563c25fdf24ad76c739ee0561a3c977d671a SHA-256: 9519fc42b2d68e99549daa762237d71154f45992cfff444f7c800b55606448c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly suggests an attempt to lure victims to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/93569999150.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa1948b3ae---pifitimazunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/77726225836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/30069933128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f16e4ae0d6b59bff8825cfacf8c3fdc8/29453692052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/wuvaninofufolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardfarm.com/clients/877021/File/memubila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/vipezorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/54932973920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/jifeganadodarumetovefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pbldf1i5upmd6fm0l9gph9bab/80010752386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ee45333e8---80866933784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bantinnhadat.com/users/files/juxufoveziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/zawuvifitapexadetuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/39830603946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpitrade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xulinaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbbd11b851---88902969948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/35800706536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atbmog85k47b9lv20obpseuff6/90062228197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/totudowaveludugijuloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/99463354082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81fdmmpf4o3lp9ptm5taiod1p1/61005465057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=projetos+para+arduino+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_off0000ef75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001078c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078C 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 49e22ecf8a6976e04852c9dc207fc4d358b02ad676fccac992e4a7dc178462db
font_02_sfnt_off00012021.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12021 19220 bytes
SHA-256: 714c71ae52dacf771be02c73f70dba8641e20160af8afb0f20cad306a6847dc8