Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b2262dd1729389d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 05:11:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d72b1c5d48cb5ab74da8b1db6b47f4ac SHA-1: abf0a62c90cb629765026e9df97a35601c0b6b11 SHA-256: 9b2262dd1729389d546d6d39a6ce03a2ed84c13de56cc939758a80886cba8d17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports its malicious nature. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce48b233d3b5124f1186d634445fc03e/gukopa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/59830581278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6afd44ed5---41046496326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb6fab0c78---loxebodejujunedufodanomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/22831735423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/viwusuredaganetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e6ed17767c---rusirisojekanuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavio.su/files/file/71590213313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/lotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/am3q324cco61cige0p3us9a423/rikasilibowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d57048dc9d25296a012a5c70187b9c17/41853758001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4squebec.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/74197839391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/88834437979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iguanapools.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aupqei8ak0ao41hh1fgv52phu2/gavotubinupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab773fcc4e2---zaxikuwoxopexanetafofedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8c6de1c63---diladulamoxokemelexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d2f160961d8fe83833f5fc538e1cac7/40506656210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/nitavawafeworusotuseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/33374040013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d07514ae87---75980683927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d98763bc42c---vuxikagajojazapagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakesideterracecondo.com/clients/41361/File/70748157542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/46390566052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+reduce+pdf+size+in+windows+10PDF 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_off0000e4cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4CF 16520 bytes
SHA-256: c8a9410b6cb9fe80db1a211fc7e8f743f9b3cc92f6329cfa0a8858333fe6e4aa
font_01_sfnt_off00010fc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127DD 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 25a068eb0cdb1c9e3b7183464eb536fc242403ad091cbbf639f56acfd4ff28bf