Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9554564d3d5ed42c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 17:37:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 40609d64bf7507be6d49b0b99b6f0d11 SHA-1: 666d3b6cc6621eb3cb2338439fb1bdc4045503d9 SHA-256: 9554564d3d5ed42ca89a4046c49a5d27d231d7bf595c5ca7b38d6b0a0cd746ce
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'QR code lure' heuristic suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+self+scan+qr+code+on+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/39485360559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/laxexenunidafekapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/tuxavigugokilonijugozus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topspeed4wd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28055991343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/69470722096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/24656535529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yingtailong.com/upload/file/210908221729779206kljzxey4msau.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/26640814190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134022cd3db8---17872259192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/6337883136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stichtingech.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56746992422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/1281253193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/245a0f5b04bc015420dba1f43e397c49/42162759738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/82748026895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385c40140cb---mikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louisianarebarcontractor.com/editorimg/file/63589566798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/tipikizixebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/sewolixukovukuxaxowenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/kirudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloteckr.com/upload/editor/file/2517183353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienphat.vn/imagesflashupload/file/boridutusuvijejakase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthihatgiong.vn/webroot/img/files/kofituporatelefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturestuff.nl/siteimages/file/vumonikiwumorug.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD980 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF192 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 993478aa559d3e28bb86b8a1dca3a771c1a60a33284d05ccd823655b5e215a0f
font_02_sfnt_off0001203d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1203D 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 7cc3961556c7ffedf16fe7a0543acda351e09b8aeaf4bf657ab6a5bd583e2c8b