Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b12219b956a6cae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 18:14:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d47f8a9d0ff058a768d63cf488af9fd6 SHA-1: 161111ddb391799a1881699f3afb6cabb0f73de3 SHA-256: 9b12219b956a6caebfc5cd47b3d02e0ba05ad461f1f11af894f8e6f275ff604c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://arsvet.ru/img/upload/lejuxikitizofozometuwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f958109d892dd457b647c7b4a8b682b5/4948342236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letajicikoberce.cz/userfiles/file/bijitafedazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.nagydavid.com/files/files/xamet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuiquji.net/d/files/13005415075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nosasasira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210908023704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funcarele.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fanemazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nayyaralidada.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mutavagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/85506401273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a62cb1fac---57932121792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/geneperugarimovegoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5a2v8me4hf3le0o3eks492rg6/dumosusogelowoserelage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/jejetidoxawekamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laibros.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/turikirisanivowuregiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/jozazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doingthing.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/47229167316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/19470041970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/vilovijepaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13569258333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145c5d3028fb---wesotuvaputo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409d247d5f4---49726359722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=fake+caller+id+apkPDF 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_off0000b68d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB68D 18968 bytes
SHA-256: c4c1bf3c5e56fb9a6b5585a17abedd8ecf0567d8860268f7ccfa5bd3dc22ad67
font_01_sfnt_off0000e73d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF54 10088 bytes
SHA-256: a7b17f34996fdb0d5c9e460a723d518424ff48b909c128195df8a471e27e4f50