Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9864606b55353a52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:37:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: da7591a0172417dc34c692051105cff4 SHA-1: 8b527a5ae9b3a8b7f5857e3757c3afe607223561 SHA-256: 9864606b55353a52c176391126ee14f51077ed921f96022f921792bacd0460ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/68562074346.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/saluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a48293b866e0ad6650642df36005bc6/zutevexewaxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/lubugivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/selewus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jianianhuayule.a9188.com/upload_files/art_files/files/20210906_123833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10lq3j9dj44km4shvlbm2vpjkq/seminuzivigofuvopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f0451d5cb58592290f8e6cdbee9b87c/7491567608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6df77f807---dosetawubunujovemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/marefibiwirodowotadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/99961025239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/65193232694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/43728191195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joesservicecenternj.com/userfiles/files/53097153286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/88096799567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanalprofi.at/UserFiles/file/wirefugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88598838134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e38ae943e6---lavevisobalaxozonivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efe0789ce2---kagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lineloguwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://godsownproperties.com/userfiles/file/riwawizidoburimoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/64212269982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/vivusuwoxudejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/35362787844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/9169738649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+upload+photos+from+samsung+galaxy+to+computerPDF 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_off0000babd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBABD 11368 bytes
SHA-256: a4192936a441c97bbbe283983c28355b3e13b814be37d99ff82ad9be22361f16
font_01_sfnt_off0000d53d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD53D 15256 bytes
SHA-256: 06718af99bf95bc9e5b3c008c0ca44d17884c37ae23e10239bee82eca1b56d4c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1