Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a56d44136532048…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:26:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 82a302b6b552c8ae93e06900321ca0d7 SHA-1: da38117d344b2067a83a7fd93152719d211dd63e SHA-256: 9a56d44136532048f45ecf970c8798a9514a97b6bf2376ed24974e08c89a9fa3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or payment scam pretext. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/70321572320.pdf
    • http://share-world.tw/userfiles/file/rumimokigilamepijuza.pdf
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/zufigidalufiruvalusibu.pdf
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofaxusoj.pdf
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/40998362663.pdf
    • http://osrclass1967.com/clients/8/84/84e84eb3bb32f45446e669e24fea3ebc/File/zidezuxa.pdf
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/jevomokajojemibug.pdf
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/lufizebesejurawifumopaf.pdf
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20816740769.pdf
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m3t49vuuh6rjtabm07ohumk70l/rutedawudidoramez.pdf
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161058fcf7e29e---lesikabevivenu.pdf
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/66920691221.pdf
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/wufuro.pdf
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/94577223712.pdf
    • http://gorillatheory.com/admin/upload/file/83969289853.pdf
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqhc63su16rg3puon3e9f1uh22/soxub.pdf
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a45e170237---jusodufolutupepemobafi.pdf
    • http://dsraxys.com/uploads/6507529159.pdf
    • https://ego-sofa.tw/uploads//files/202108071002015234.pdf
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/rexol.pdf
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/10497327318.pdf
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pajaxalurejitixezatiwapak.pdf
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967f97a4f1d---19177045664.pdf
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/jexeleradimetogo.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c556831c4de670f311cf63e44abd38c/peviroxuda.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf98dd6f7c9---20506375553.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=sage+accpac+erp+manual+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cfd7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7e9.bin
366f336fcdbf1901ff8961c6597660e7658209154656ac14878e26aa71719523
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E9 17484 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001154c.bin
f14991f0f086728d0ae2fa260c33074c8db66c03dd32e650e5054ba40e0a1829
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154C 10660 bytes