Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9abb0b43c57dd57f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 11:56:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dd4c6d67a6a9cc5da6519d141bc0fd1c SHA-1: 4d9de954612ee410b9d3afdbf94fd4dc41178a1f SHA-256: 9abb0b43c57dd57f6d9363426a5dd252e31667c52d989ecb1eed06566c4e5631
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, some of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination of the malicious links. The presence of these links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=audiodateien+bearbeiten+android
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/rawakogogo.pdf
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/lodasofamiba.pdf
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gedifutotatevizodemepu.pdf
    • https://saint-florentin.charcutier-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87059435831.pdf
    • http://kamienneogrody.com/userfiles/file/zaxarakugojususi.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a193255af---guzigemanegujezitokesaz.pdf
    • https://ritascreation.com/userfiles/file/zoxogekuro.pdf
    • http://everestlodgelukla.com/userfiles/file/kuwemez.pdf
    • http://studioboscono.it/userfiles/files/kexevowowaxexabatifusur.pdf
    • http://viettruss.com/upload/file/36942358618.pdf
    • http://lammermoor.net/imagenes/file/lezobegimidujuruzides.pdf
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161439635bb3d6---bufix.pdf
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/xijiliminazerulevij.pdf
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/61488785264.pdf
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/83630496739.pdf
    • http://vagyonvedelemszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/55359938475.pdf
    • https://alshuka.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zilumoruvanelaxad.pdf
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/2581150046145648fc9820.pdf
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/44859665503.pdf
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/28038184975.pdf
    • https://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18203860468.pdf
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa07a89892---34181132849.pdf
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6urjnoos1etq8d77f0ic0s706/murexilelib.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_off0000df5c.bin
9483bdb92d8ff5047ac7355113a1a6d9adb47868180ec483bc532545c03c8cbb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF5C 18692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010dd1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000125e8.bin
26b58c8e10a7de2680c9a5357fc396461c8b77a6d41b547b02771a54702e626c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E8 10248 bytes