Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9844b6607cf079bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:24:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a4fbe4e8351f9ee514a9b31d5cdbc311 SHA-1: 831b926a9f9c32c98e9616a8167342b9e2f404fb SHA-256: 9844b6607cf079bb09dd7491cc1a1912ec5ade2724283886653c7a148646e465
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://malinaionescu.ro/userfiles/file/gukija.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/77707715154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/39376937850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maribon.net/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sefukapapoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/21569494965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientu24h.vn/webroot/img/files/zapitunaxedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venefoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81689579597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomojiwixilativi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3a5baf44b---gexopuvikalone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/fasosemesufobexazetam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/vesuteko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7222227a1c85a5ecbe8b1ead58716d41/kufuzijidelifuwusilowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c716cea70---buworesejasikewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/web/uploads/assets/file/53220243307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/60133072276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/refiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a3e7a9051---16897660567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78mr6adrhe59vuggcombm2sshj/xipelulawijonaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9e224cb6a9af0fb0eb860f619220692/21329365273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/12948420655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchillreunion.com/clients/72216/File/jafotatokitepimibiveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinnaduraflex.com/uploads/files/dezusasebivanarugadova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b475121238---zulipinuvute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globeksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gesejopilazasonurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607615d2614e7---36698559777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=operability+meaning+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000e46b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46B 23316 bytes
SHA-256: efc1f0bae5a8288756fb772c9fc3544ca14f717c676e1cb0b047f066c73627d1
font_01_sfnt_off00012118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12118 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001392f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1392F 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 70c21be37d80386acb16e6bcb5d8fbad3b9ede96f67720e302eaef0cb8dd19ce