Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a4b622d3ce489da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:49:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5c3fc8545a645e863f88d78eefb63629 SHA-1: 1db4d9e6bd7b2db702f9ac6bc351196f64afde41 SHA-256: 9a4b622d3ce489daeb46afa7a61eb1861d725d12792917a1e7e2dda500bf8683
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links, including those on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggests an attempt to distribute phishing content or further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/75624879778.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xpeedon.net/userfiles/file/20210902063350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buildingexpertsdirectory.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokumanalozabifolowawuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themalc.org/files/file/jesegusemesavovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/76167247273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/71268631299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/6842428231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matraci.info/UserFiles/File/52780736870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/44642628509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristorantebiscione.com/userfiles/files/78196652606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140102b95425---powetukaparive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufebupasebalabedimekiniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/gejerorawaxelevalonokofof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83743c54eb74ee6efc689a3405232abc/wotusaralalodibajunagiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/raxutuvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/739dadafcea911ba16385a0a5e5a73bd/18905871959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614238d03ed99---jetusisipepuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9a2868c3603e7b86b8e37d62783077a/8125906404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/govupodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nktrading.qa/file/files/13161704648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seasonsblinds.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14315633274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/26767632183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/xasibuzeranoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133abced7217---64477603924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/42150684108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+go+unlimited+coins+modPDF 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_off0000e3d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE4 20116 bytes
SHA-256: 01eeb75f0443e2a8d5c52423e3ad10e136e439cf386f1ad999bbd53662a30da1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F37 10644 bytes
SHA-256: d41c7cd7aeeac9ec64cd69d057fd5f304970d22e5926ba76998ee34c03755151