PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9b0036d99db78b19

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:57:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27

MD5: 63c6817169dc29d42315dc2ffa9e621e SHA-1: 44a4fdb81f4b87e687d96d6ee6e0ae25f8366db2 SHA-256: 9b0036d99db78b19146f7e83a4b401d58d7e6f4b2c1ef48393a8cd7237e2dde2

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for human consumption but rather to host these links.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://polishingmarblefloor.it/userfiles/files/daxagem.pdf In PDF document text
- http://henskeschildersbedrijf.nl/upload/kojepikanapumajune.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c8ad8e2fd---14696415090.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/zulobavozafo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/xamoresowud.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/3160226457.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://filetorme.com/upload/files/42059373583.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://sineadstone.com/userfiles/file/12245623153.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/fadezufowukolokerefeju.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bretagne.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xisejidubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://fgcrubochi.com.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76533818243.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.plan.msu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dofemosavifuzigaxuzawa.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://westpakusa.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/97430361144.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147ac446b9f4---pukemavivugezezazenuzop.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/xojel.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://totounited.com/contents/files/wijov.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/kebefabefeveresud.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pivelujasexuju.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202109021616502603.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161350d559fb15---1395117565.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://szemvidito.hu/sfwkr/feltoltesek/Images/Image/dufedewabujojixovagapep.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/letosofanilokupoja.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137babe5707f---97764895599.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gniortho.com/files/Upload/file/ragorijebalolimivozis.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=unfortunately+file+manager+has+stoppedPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000dd15.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD15	18360 bytes
SHA-256: `06674763ec047f4608ecdac2685d94f2ac0778ba7051793dc512ab4d26110bf0`
`font_01_sfnt_off00010c2e.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C2E	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_02_sfnt_off00012445.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12445	11168 bytes
SHA-256: `1d424d5010b875e963778f22a1517b9c4ba6d4a17f02ae04f76a980819e31fb0`

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