Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9779f253514a928e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 22:08:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bd71a03886f72b17cd37563957870a41 SHA-1: aa89ec26bc05168f82d16c12b14a4493a9738f7a SHA-256: 9779f253514a928eb07e3420ac572b9f9d8582398c659c3c755f864208fc1c24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://mhreng.com/userfiles/file/30583956214.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimamodelleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/65176245565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teedinmaesai.com/user_img/file/88442208140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edenestates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babebiwuwatarinarakogixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ab31d9ffc---xenediwologega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f8f71b658c---dudijugunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/15014872578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/komosuruloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suriyedostlukdernegi.org/image/files/kunerunakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f792eb6d5---lukuzafifomuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artgallery.devctn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96086422020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/28051532878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicm2015.mist.ac.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74377514208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/52984416728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camphacement.vn/upload/files/34678125063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b19v1mb1yi.com/userfiles/file/72544343483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cqc-material.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/68896824497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kftchem.com/upload/files/selesenorijera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirutte.com/newsfiles/files/molixutovigenazofuxaxenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-monster.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/53555378664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingcall.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deluwiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakloboucku.cz/uploaded/file/72075768790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fnaf+the+silver+eyes+graphic+novel+read+onlinePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d70c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70C 11056 bytes
SHA-256: b2da27971851a2cc48e9baeb8054e6eff58da877d2a69b1b599bd8b186a90d95
font_01_sfnt_off0000f08a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08A 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 7508ec5cac8fc93bb1c0fa09a07da738b5937e5f8d40ae60e02d4285c32fa87b
font_02_sfnt_off00011d58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1