Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a1b368852137862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 12:30:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 97c071f8dd23e5d9c9df38e0bb4e22c9 SHA-1: c29580c22f94122322a091e7b025709b2fabcbfe SHA-256: 9a1b3688521378620d46d0f7f2d94a1db9a707b63dfaab35a9f8a52286935494
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the 'link farm' heuristics suggest an intent to redirect users, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://cmf8.ir/data/file/gepir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://netart.hu/userfiles/file/lapofuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airin.lv/images/userfiles/file/45994546539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents/files/68770395078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/xumoramanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/suxetawowagutatili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakesushimn.com/userfiles/files/56025023418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/tekebila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billard-hauri.ch/userfiles/file/lilejekexopasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/61746112303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72863695175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8f4b2e5889ecf2200dcf1841f312ac4/6519595526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36ea7442f6b082149411ac96a5713202/53260047378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake-tori.com/images/library/File/robixabavetulorisedote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/lolibiperawanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361e1339a84---renugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ed26c943c621ff8a95db248e82517d3/boragurajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systempro.kr/userData/board/file/kilojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fibertechnique.com/tmp/file/84422853345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/nagoxidipuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seatraderhk.com/userfiles/60785840667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/fatiditidiwefolafuxalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/58195557057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artediapharma.com/upload/files/puwosexazowodoluzomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sandsflooring.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21077540502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/dogexubom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=layout+material+designPDF 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_off0000b5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5CA 15984 bytes
SHA-256: 335ba00aec0a4f4a09c16a74c839eae337dc98b3dbc2859c1ce408369106640f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDF6 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 84c73635f1cffc4cf5d3fc101fe1b00ec902c35e2ed5816ae0b101be5e4df5f5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f67d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF67D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1