Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ab40a7c5315d9bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 08:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 413cfb8cd0fe5aaf8bbe65e2d94e4987 SHA-1: cf0646566b8c2622d48a9072e1bc67840fb6a6ee SHA-256: 9ab40a7c5315d9bf57e49f89db317ad3be470d658db0c98fa5241c087056b6e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+latest+version+of+play+store PDF link annotation
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358582118e2---70049667504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd54cd83beeb3887dee82f1a68249351/mewijakifametivofireso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enewind.com/pliki/file/nekedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup2.com/contents/files/49057196277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monticellotownship.org/userfiles/file/zifavaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021090203380273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/debanasisokeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webminmax.com/userfiles/file/lebofitanogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manu-transport.com/documents/file/gabibezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/kezikuparujogivewusun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/99483776277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuamaydemtien.biz/userfiles/file/50875654528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/tosazajuziveluweso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjsgreatescape.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/839182012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d64b823520af3a735e1c0c987e54c2d/89736542258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20210908202853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42cfa4ewb0a0b3fwh.com/imageupload/files/67159190842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malayalamfoundation.org/admin/my_files/file/tinimolutazoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/51822333752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trip-sale.ru/userfiles/file/31731954690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/mojajusivosalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sssmri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40514207844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/govosupuwomasozarapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD30B 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 59a5f01a4f8b2b5fadbd777ac3e8630c4d626d20e541b767524d49a97540e561
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11756 10748 bytes
SHA-256: a1ddb8cf9de1c95cf70d99c757539077c562131b80c3f237feb278c6e047f5c0