Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9782c7f41440bb05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:00:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 56bcdd718a826e551863442948e34e85 SHA-1: 66632d645e6db1f5c51d2a6433cc0d5f4916e6b0 SHA-256: 9782c7f41440bb05eccfae09b6c0a4c21de57c77600f3aa241fdd9152ee6a1bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristics strongly indicate maliciousness. The document's structure and numerous embedded URLs point to a link farm designed to redirect users to compromised websites, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a 'police clearance application form' in a URL parameter suggests a social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://namlongadc.vn/uploads/news/files/xilonebexarokan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0df28b8ddb235292d307231cac45ecfa/wokapefowabamitatuzosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/623fb4ec694cc48d3153ad4791601a76/3487067075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/79050403253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac088000aa4---83498655593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba4b936c93f51289b33a8cbda29bfdc/26157675231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tincorner.vn/uploads/files/65934921218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f068470d15---30055069531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c942df90cf8---dowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moneymaker-gold.de/files/89152596204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/488695782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfn2v95e6um3569dkujeqc03rt/4035981727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/83612372116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/kumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021072217050937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24415939271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstechno.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/99329472452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refah4ter.info/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/25857460487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b26338a4f1---madorokiwamemaxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/busarebamoxukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/50599644581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d87f856f0---luguragederunarutabixowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=police+clearance+application+form+philippines+pdfPDF 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_off0000ec8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A1 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 17578c963d88326bea1617fd91bbd300e72376b7c1ec57b3f2bb5d4fa1ab2329
font_02_sfnt_off00013330.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13330 10888 bytes
SHA-256: b6c8a46e813761b920c75b2c5d66ccd0f2142f2ddde0067ed53615c4edfb5738