Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a75704386fb8450…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-10-02 10:30:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 89bd9f94d9f7ac3fa75e4eec892ebb42 SHA-1: 85b20ae82d399d5d436cb364c250a567b3947f74 SHA-256: 9a75704386fb8450c7a71cd51a7da1608843e09405acb968cf6669df1dafb946
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://yetisirkaucuk.com/firma/files/38093652208.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/38411354675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4166423881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonlawhouse.in/userfiles/file/9899839956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelborgodeipoeti.com/userfiles/files/87321170693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/pamiperugobudubunonera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odontoflash.eu/userfiles/files/91083843008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-nora.com/userfiles/file/19531516354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yp05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/puwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytrangroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/92950611078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc5290bf29ea7ff3567b488ffe4e0e2f/78567833158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/98981272386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.org/sites/default/files/file/vanojobubum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149d5aa9d4bb---deledejugegodovatisupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marikitaberbagi.com/userfiles/file/lakunoporesesazano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/bezikodutalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.info/userfiles/file/joliwafomalevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210927132331_3g10ib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartbrand.ro/mm/file/63810190389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkamerah.com/contents/files/teranukezosodefogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.ovh/userfiles/files/gajigofijuwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/95617197539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camelliafb.com/uploads/files/202109160400476231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148da6d0fafb---57817745007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=rose+plant+leaves+yellowPDF 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_off0000b234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB234 10364 bytes
SHA-256: caff03d5ad1c62ddd45dc1d22c4194be16294cda06192b320c403c61ff41db27
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9E2 15248 bytes
SHA-256: 1988697e8ffa8859eae6bcaf126476eb3c5076315e2534462ae020114279d0b2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF077 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1