Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9af03f8cf233d4fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:54:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6e2ba054667ac95abc586fde2dc31cca SHA-1: 54c068b003ac9cc77d19195d01bcb461ab3f346a SHA-256: 9af03f8cf233d4fa71313f4aaef5fc6720547b7e811825804bbb1f47fb8ee5b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The URL containing 'technical support representative interview questions and answers pdf' indicates a lure to disguise the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/57345114456.pdf
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbcd484222e86d8f11956dc47c6de0e9/71841999464.pdf
    • https://dichocungtoi.com/userfiles/file/kufeluferedamuza.pdf
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063778638f1b4fce9e7508c4281b03a2/suwapelutisutelozu.pdf
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/puteji.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2081506f49---parufujobal.pdf
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/23396776637.pdf
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72720772907.pdf
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/levilin.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1c5d42edd---29818100037.pdf
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/19541779385.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7b127b0c7---80114149008.pdf
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/komevemubapozosurul.pdf
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d967fb120e---beridirujililexokofe.pdf
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/62364297487.pdf
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/25209396689.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89ce26f997---80219369766.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607939bcaa1aa---27261649772.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e3b604a91---98268108211.pdf
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ea1c3f3ab---35870533303.pdf
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/wofofe.pdf
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/fotirozakumadebifademi.pdf
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/67784554110.pdf
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/82602082845.pdf
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/pipute.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=technical+support+representative+interview+questions+and+answers+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_off0000f1ff.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a11.bin
a1b9983acdf16624edd9a0bc29be04db1f817bd9c91da0f51f67f1aa4feea89d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A11 17872 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013815.bin
ae6be820fb6465de2cdc63b0f26b6d4802397b8d876871477c95485bc4e4dbc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13815 11076 bytes