Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9649a892e2e658fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c12b8e778fd7306b915eb8e23c3e2141 SHA-1: 13f314aee6f3bdcfc6a0cb9050c7478881f17264 SHA-256: 9649a892e2e658fbbe3f69551287dcc3fe2a861264b1c742fbba4a9ed2a3b3ef
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 pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+uk+drag+race+season+2+online
    • https://fgcrubochi.com.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diven.pdf
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/nefadidasoderudefizebat.pdf
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/pubus.pdf
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/13292823926.pdf
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/tapijuzanoge.pdf
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/palidotovu.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613192fd7b4ea---bidusonaraxax.pdf
    • http://saveondealz.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/goramanogisisusem.pdf
    • http://smingames.com/ckfinder/files/koxetapalufutobevexaxeluj.pdf
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/60645067723.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614069a68564c---wenelokakonux.pdf
    • http://lingeriedediva.com/UploadFile/file/2021091806553973499.pdf
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386d6b6698b---63930587643.pdf
    • http://ncdesign.it/userfiles/files/16499986580.pdf
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24ac8a0c91162338e34c5ebd1573edb8/95485199464.pdf
    • http://intproplaw.com/admin/uploads/file/9711710138.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741bc32a6c712adcb7ad967b471db245/93018583996.pdf
    • https://patriciogaete.com/upload/file/7696364326.pdf
    • http://xecuoihuyhoang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jufitime.pdf
    • http://tecksco.com/upload/files/repisutofubid.pdf
    • https://drbumbnursinghome.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nepobowix.pdf
    • http://vet-arrighicolangelicristilli.eu/userfiles/files/sogogabo.pdf
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb7c882602---62896750417.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613462be62415---60988438597.pdf
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e8d46d67e27ed498930b4151f55f8f/duverisodewasalag.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_off0000ba3d.bin
beaab982b4c544c738ea637f0c039fa20c50bef27156ead708e0c35600fdd866
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA3D 10952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d37a.bin
a2d5fdd200496ef3cd187526dcb57c1c29cfe82e34c2d287fe5eb8b0a7329f90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD37A 17012 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff8e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF8E 16792 bytes