Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9710deab2e5cdbf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-27 19:33:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cdb85f036ec12ed9550085a5c71e561c SHA-1: aa51995cb61814e2fe851136245b023a4756faac SHA-256: 9710deab2e5cdbf5c4858fe45337e7bab1d7b918250fa85c3a405cf95b5eb53e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fanny+hill+pdf+espa%C3%B1ol PDF link annotation
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/xeridemukuwanoxugovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blogsma.com/files/budajinuguropupijos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/rofuvawigijokumovezazeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harekatmemuru.com/images/Media/files/zadunurefubofaxegaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismet.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mezovozopiwugosidurenuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ort168.com/upload/ckeditor/files/31100459969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc3163b02ec6cad2bae2a1abc8a96ae/jixegodadaxibote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/nopukomoruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palestraarkadia.it/userfiles/files/9186209449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayer.cn/d/files/40574184017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/xukegupetopogiwerepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/dedurudogonadaxowipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131404792942---30157950821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109020901478577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/77111640104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beganijewellers.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60485225285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/39819791763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tratedu.net/ssss2018/assets/143ad273/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/userfiles/files/a114a9d54dddf82e206a305b19a870ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finalstage.biz/js/upload/files/27002083125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatimaartwork.com/userfiles/file/pixawuporam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymart.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63045542255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c54b8886e4---24818747300.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_off0000b79c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB79C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFAE 17992 bytes
SHA-256: 61fbf78dd9b8cc8c038e863834e93496579d314789b116745b600fccc562035b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA3 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 3466d15a1228afb5c7663509dc6ff2b442445ab2cb49e429767553517e791e99