Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9613b5daa39f7b00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8bfc70b56eaf96b474d80621735dd8a4 SHA-1: e2be8096dfcd2de0d83ffd24e2717895cb95b70e SHA-256: 9613b5daa39f7b00d7e1da85d88a9588ba185faa12a3327e6ca071e5b74ea99a
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 malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution, aligning with the Spearphishing Attachment technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thinking+out+loud+by+ed+sheeran+mp4
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/80463325791.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5koohm69bu6las8r1u1mf6ehrk/toxeloboroten.pdf
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uav49o2th1srun8vh071hcuji4/13254242650.pdf
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20102450967.pdf
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76955907826.pdf
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvjc3og9sg7pbclvcsul38i714/2990983674.pdf
    • http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/xigifatupanofujaveb.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4b1118a95---pabamuzudub.pdf
    • http://microlana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/valerofiveremaditupuninod.pdf
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/47311089135.pdf
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/64844155171.pdf
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/rilupalexad.pdf
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cf17d4f8b---17467163875.pdf
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9a659406347703f215a445831bdd837/33437192168.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801b0c58e9d---lakiwexevakotojejurojunab.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe6b97fa9c---vogobebejizadijonubes.pdf
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/savozuvazepasod.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2fflq58gaapiu9gkflgd3qak6/72734883335.pdf
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b96184991b8---tufowu.pdf
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbb3b66287---78025316974.pdf
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/54430140146.pdf
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/214649331560a1773f34d7f.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c110.bin
5c4500e592bbf9877ed598b9c27c914c466517476503194ea5b07b5866b66cdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC110 11328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000db23.bin
018e3cadaa86f6cd7fd26096b07eb424f22ee3d831c51a62abebcfeea5a4bd04
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB23 16092 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000104c2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C2 16792 bytes