Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9950039e96631c1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-10-06 11:46:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 8e68dbcc0a5b0452ff878976a46cb603 SHA-1: 7a712a1080a58f70ecff46c913bf7d878eca006c SHA-256: 9950039e96631c1b0762d281d816692edce345827417e0dfe49de9ec754a939f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable domains. This pattern is consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns, where users are lured to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://jlssj.com/qianzi/upfile/case_editor/file/zalufezumixevijirolitan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56bfb7f773846b0b2154e3179173ce81/segozimidigugudoliluwupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/36962034330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventensis.lt/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovarakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613033f4be091---dexejibifuxokejuleve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muabannhagiare.net/images/uploads/files/mafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laurallo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bijavesanor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/visorexojebisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eapver.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109240027393760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/90947993490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/52824441482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-cluny.cz/UserFiles/file/naxezulabisovujeguribonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brincandoeaprendendo.com/fotosempresa/files/45632002012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/43689235699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/bewuvebigixipazinaneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents/files/89400739758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinhwacar.com/userData/board/file/74609644770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/45959799317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongsaigon.net/uploads/files/70638857391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/541325348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210912101225_660048786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e62754b43c204fc3d93780b945343be3/54175956913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/waxenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogomumuvofukekoworopotad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45247720af01e13c8c3ad4cac3b6c30b/nexuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xabovezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=funny+valentine+quotes+for+singlesPDF 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_off0000d5b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B1 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 67f7a707b45cad28a38b67ea5fbfda4fbb17ec87eaeff4e07d9976b76f6d5c0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6F 18528 bytes
SHA-256: d0796767ee2fba1a81759707cc0a9b98d487bfe9fc18f91fe50e2a75a60937a2
font_02_sfnt_off00011f53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1