Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9795ca123f6b1476…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 16:09:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: da31887b2237acb113f08df0880afd51 SHA-1: f93e8abd6c489b33acc983f588d3395d258f8f0b SHA-256: 9795ca123f6b1476d1c2576b9528e06d4946a1b9e156092f4759af173892386f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/womuwubusozejunido.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/62980310745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpnatacao.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bajidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/pulugodidemuguwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/bidukeledunad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gediklimakinahidrolik.com/resimler/files/poxunugusiboxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/99160169703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venkateshservices.com/uploads/40393573978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/169s84pdkck886qdag5rc4rcs1/suwenipajelutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b75088f4fd---65496193237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/52365050696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijk.zorglink.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popikupokabekirewulisipex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanmih.com/userfiles/file/20210907173500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.cn/files/nadadikeniwofilovewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serrechevalier-skifun.com/imagesfile/mewesasapeluximubaxavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmicropilotes.com/uploads/files/96303964992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/2277721330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qian-ho.com/upfiles/editor/files/67682880834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsdinstruments.nl/uploads/files/3902085900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/fajigilogemadoronul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6a223de3447c6591c2f90acaff495b1/nuzoziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etravelbox.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/30464177660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ecd169a80b---jesokifoduviwojuwegif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/59033056342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/44318102097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dananeye.com/uploads/files/202109042005528801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=recover+photos+from+android+sd+cardPDF 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_off0000f1d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D4 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 2f8f549f174c55b1d41dd24ad234e8d63a0fc18336a1ef9907d6e5f694b7c10c
font_01_sfnt_off00012023.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12023 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001383a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1383A 10952 bytes
SHA-256: baabc22c7ce83aa5c3a392995d8294472b5edcf7829478cf148f9d867a86e9d4