Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9778ad70a2f7832c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:06:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4e7062f12312dd6506da609a70873980 SHA-1: b35978961a964f5e54013836d12d8dc9e74a5a90 SHA-256: 9778ad70a2f7832c60e6efb51222cfb22e7f50607408a052955e812c6fdd6a71
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=install+steam+on+linux+chromebook PDF link annotation
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/50904359125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/jidirekogina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgkno.cn/upload/51115452853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9043941084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aumnat2car.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/10987723028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bdee648b00---55009378639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dubojaxiboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saktigroup.in/uploads/gerezuzuxozuweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/mudizufinonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614559520e437---wosunafixovowizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.com/userfiles/file/20210902090824_646986189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43846684121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorod-r.com/userfiles/file/loroperulabosivesomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/korokemovosogeliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/vobejuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdsenfeng.com/data/files/posawitodanapiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tristar-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91557103097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fd470b6066afba9c61076701fe6987d/61139447856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuocmambason.com/upload/fckimagesfile/5eeca92242a9871f7e230ed27d3f53df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peetersinstallatietechniek.nl/upload/files/zedoretusefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pvvc.cz/files/zaropit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/60365784376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a2043b7f61---68925587359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generoussecurity.com/uploads/wawenemapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sushixusa.com/userfiles/files/todevizafapuzalilo.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_off0000b5ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5EC 10880 bytes
SHA-256: ac0f3a3c8f8ff35f8d4c2c26629828b8734f247b19b2d1086c6405cd162b5b3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000cee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F4 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 09f2d87bda237ba0713c830d258034169c55c6109a0d7eaa1d0618035b4597f9