Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9521480a32941964…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-10-03 09:10:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9ab1439dd3f7b5719e34022e124a2e49 SHA-1: b0e49f2fc2de9bce4f8e11182f49fd037420dd24 SHA-256: 9521480a32941964a7d0e1cc65602179ede8f86ce017f6df122607160f17d2a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers 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, forming a link farm. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/4380405586.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://proficlim.ru/public/userfiles/file/65175834934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamel2.pl/userfiles/file/vitokumisenuzosakewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biswasi.com/userfiles/files/9401013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61487898950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10lq3j9dj44km4shvlbm2vpjkq/seminuzivigofuvopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fese.in/ienupdimages/images/files/95929732526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://langumeistras.lt/i/File/wuvowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pickup-ws.com/userfiles/files/19271236158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/lawelukukakijomiruku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pluset.com/userfiles/5959226737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citranco.com/users/files/49702261740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ju2mb5sq09d553458rooqhm7i/zelugejomawamolekose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69168ac36e5916c9f629ef8c2aabfde9/59888054205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmanagement.produse-electrice.ro/images/file/87776608540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/junesuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/54292861592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinojjacob.com/userfiles/file/vesigasoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nowuwaximuxifizasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntra.pl/userfiles/file/99790021265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesrimaudieres.com/images/uploads/file/xijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/gesagisoxegizulotomob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/39271704349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65821515518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/09/file/1631555598754970162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+long+do+warnings+stay+on+your+recordPDF 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_off0000b121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB121 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 39f776271ebdf4100910dd609fe2785e20e83e476673eed2ea177b997a5c5113
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA1D 14552 bytes
SHA-256: 718d7cf86218e71ba1d5815d46d1b4654d080d89cbda6ff51ad7e158441c7c5e
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1