Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9723dfafaba76701…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 17:21:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 51c84a3ac678fbe1420a9f72288f2c60 SHA-1: c443873cc97dab59b9b90c04c567666b9aeadfaa SHA-256: 9723dfafaba767011fbf4fd6d241abf5b4ed35432b5aabb6a359169a8ecf6cc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, many of which are likely compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ksi+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/81280460070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/tozuminikurusudetovawagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/tojawiliraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1tlstar.com/storage/uploads/files/392615988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e30c86adce---naxabidomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smogy.ru/files/files/revavupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/reregodele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proleague.dk/userfiles/file/gosarapajalavosemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/posor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarska-vyroba.cz/UserFiles/File/fepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/15698902799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/18323655787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81e2c7998bbcfc9a360c1f6c1e79d2d1/rubopagasapupovukugenotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8d94632d27ff268d74d4b331f76a190/88040238209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taylormadetc.com/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewesajotatamiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/2109011430319773640z0cabhj8d80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/zijelikuxoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/numizuturofawafodanadela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhygiene.hu/editor_up/fusutematarimanewirosixud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://self-storage.sg/images/uploadedimages/file/gizikoxiwujunebiwarar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/xejeneberovarimosozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sh8s7km7pk6vhfr1hlh384a01/fozalodemejowob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefofigubodibefefobesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apex-architect.ru/images/file/nuziperelanarijuserepela.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_off0000c956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC956 10072 bytes
SHA-256: 259d85d15e7dc360334106b64175b87bdb8d0156990d16da2acc80527091bb35
font_01_sfnt_off0000df92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF92 17364 bytes
SHA-256: e8c55de4b4516e096e3ea72fa243d1540c1b7e6a5449d23a931dfed557fb66d8
font_02_sfnt_off00010bd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1