Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9623012e18a5f615…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-28 11:22:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ab59e06f7ef7a46c7925b0324520308f SHA-1: 90a2453d7c42b616cab074eeba33b990b4150960 SHA-256: 9623012e18a5f6151fe578db4445adced8a0422053733c24fbc3e8c4d90a117f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+number+444+in+the+bible PDF link annotation
    • http://lehnerkom.de/images/uploaded/file/14494690333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/towegukota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210926_175106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/38893030889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salespate.com/userfiles/file/fanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deitratech.com/userfiles/file/zakezisalesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqrainternationalschool.org/_assets/files/9703123124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161459fc7a03f4---30476579371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615295a6554d6---vilekumisebemitaletivates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicorn.mn/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutasiloxonikupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/58065781234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416e61610e8---59402090579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt01cq860b5s13go5nq02rcalm/17500337049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymart.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapijaxuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7419017025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcyy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50095052712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/rofezutonodadujinoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/12235088027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/32177915570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/vesilukubenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145051b250c9---78374436720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itcck.org/upload/editor/file/57709871200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/jemudaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/84590469879.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_off0000b2ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2EE 14776 bytes
SHA-256: 59b580dd96af7ea1e78f2e6fbc23635547c6f482d996e24f188989f9532c32b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7D9 10204 bytes
SHA-256: e601bd08716cd9c5efc08f9317d7f32c68723ba1b9a20106d25056ff90c09910
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1