Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9792a6cecd635ebe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:54:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1421490d3d13247d7e4bb00bae2dcb22 SHA-1: 2faec7e7bf396ba3b1eec3706e4bd41e303e20b8 SHA-256: 9792a6cecd635ebef67f4ba1aea20f1a6d93baa6e9115a62d799ff2588ec18d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the PDF is designed to lure users to phishing or scam websites, potentially exploiting vulnerabilities or social engineering tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=formalist+approach+to+literary+criticism+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34808430642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64504941011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314c6aa5c1f---wibewadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepatsasaran.com/contents/files/10546508203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernwashpros.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/776785941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hijoin.hu/editor_up/98582741579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/buladofunijorofolokil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebel-moscow.com/content/xuploadimages/file/towudebolejidesupopuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/karivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k16jkaes09tp8ts5oaqoqopunb/56737748936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/waselifusiwezas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://femagnet.com/upload/edu/article/file/bowijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130850f9e392---mapamolotevotok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-scherer.de/userfiles/file/81219253258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xindeshiye.com/uploadfile/file///2021090302034420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iuoooo.com/filespath/files/20210906095353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massarentearchitettura.com/userfiles/files/11377892832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikdercollegeofpharmacy.com/scp/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/vokopodexixavedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamatekhanevadeh.ir/ckeditor/files/files/luzuviwivazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sojokoxamunojufugijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97346503751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/39007821651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkjv.com/Images/Media/files/67153268245.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_off0000ff06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF06 18368 bytes
SHA-256: d66db0f57c025c53033be74a9d6a409bd993282b682c8aebaedcdeabad1b0c7d
font_01_sfnt_off00012e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E6B 10872 bytes
SHA-256: a6a37558b9b3e08dd766c96d5f2a79acd4408adf396e575e8bb6661de4a36a4b
font_02_sfnt_off0001478c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1478C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1