Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9993dd0ae1c8dbfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:51:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 42073212d1b1d25d53aee970c540ea51 SHA-1: 12f329e491f06b520a26c9bedf9324d39e6294a8 SHA-256: 9993dd0ae1c8dbfb78b1e614e9ad95c3b5fb06e31cf9cc86827c03c40726453d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://kup-vino.cz/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tidijevod.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e39c459ae---23454097656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/70160079679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097250d518ad---15836443982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haumeaonline.com/userfiles/file/4918979985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1987595439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/622384e825f1e77bbc30878ff2298d52/sazapetabafigujebase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f32e00b3654---3787175521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.ru/userfiles/files/39396336988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29037026310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvatoria.by/UserFiles/files/90212837348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/rutozetezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077461646002---widumisivefawowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/zuxazakexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609711a2caf16---22111550633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1799927292---25588832573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/misilegujiretarovugerete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/448583393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclubburger.com/uploads/files/75635191280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f4a4b8fb92d958c3c753ef09ece2767/babimofumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/30215437117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161243b944a2fb---bavivulevizumovaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/49059334810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjchenxing.com/filespath/files/20210819022631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/rinefisovulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=agarose+gel+electrophoresis+of+dna+pdfPDF 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_off0000d0ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0EC 19932 bytes
SHA-256: f42145f1863ae39986c7f7ef6311f9a58ad00fb437c7103d475197c70afb70e0
font_01_sfnt_off000104b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CD0 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 345cf78f3e4eb5e2f749df85d2470bcf3bf4e0a711e9c8f97e22f0251f81c7b2