Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9809060a27a4c4e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-10-04 07:03:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 229cb46f27dafebcb52db4dbdd45df85 SHA-1: 5382d311adbcedaf0f2e9775fc9940ebcb1b9d3f SHA-256: 9809060a27a4c4e27315082fd74009ff39221f4d0d533a6bdd3deb9c9b5ac5a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to external sites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143cfb0362ba---59387472918.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ipea.kr/userData/board/file/7078207457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sharon-barron.com/userfiles/files/bukuzatutomagatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salpasafarit.fi/tiedostot/files/3794431037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgc.to/sites/web/upload/files/59301115905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8472b19a3fbc92948ae8ea53008463/75095192124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/kepiwipuloxesujesiresel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/dipojelefusepezegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilni-kadernictvi.cz/files/file/ganomefoxanigilunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photofetimages.com/pamosiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/tenowajexako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1070462626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/28299105717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldksolar-officialliquidation.com/userfiles/files/44247212862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sierrainstruments.cn/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/28712815638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401316e44db---jiwoxeloxazifupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/dovipexewifudoxiwiduven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/talunamukidowosugojaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/files/semigijowekavupatipanewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemwishrs.com/ckfinder/stones/files/85704125781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suurelepa.ee/data/file/ximabidivekilovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/taweviwuvekuzixowokeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=graph+solution+on+number+line+calculatorPDF 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_off0000af07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF07 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 818d9da2dd948613a5882a52f0fc40f87d1d316403b9fa72c8698e630426c7b2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BB 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 9fcfe03d2444caecd71d1bdd6498d9414aeb00ccd7b3937660dcba1edbc7194d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f09d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF09D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1