Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b5d847f67040a7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: ebf69864020c3ee138e04cc36c071c16 SHA-1: 7aceb757e0245f81cb1b7d81f2e35cd8b4083f38 SHA-256: 9b5d847f67040a7b5689b9812651df976e3211438445e7209a8aeff5197ca30d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF format and heuristic firings suggest potential for embedded malicious JavaScript or exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://underbutter.cz/download/foto/mewudale.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vkts.se/userfiles/file/waxizurofarubudaxubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fedf8cc078---57033901856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo-enriquemora.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76463435916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/575327ee7ebd125a2a30386243c25ae6/14176226780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmed.vn/upload/files/dojasizusuguxuwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomtco.com/technical/files/file/62503497919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/dukupusebibefamurejej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhxndl.com/uploadfiles/files/vawukuwufanevemupajukizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2-view.org/home/view/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofinijukumibutaraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bebodewoziwavamatikofene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613717db1b9ab---giwizimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loadcell.vn/Images_upload/files/moweguwixapugixaxatesiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58468942963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a90371e912---27464258840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpataljaturizmus.hu/upload/52123209764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efcosmetic.com/uploadfile/files/risixebuduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/rinuzupopoxinok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/15189670389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09afefbcce92061e3ea97cfff6806ec8/49220273793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/jakaribeganakuwuwibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tropo-design.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66821734745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/wiriwamovamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/pekagefikeborenuxaguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae6230119212872e7580605a9170dec1/konipupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=word+to+pdf+windows+7PDF 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_off0000b45a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB45A 10280 bytes
SHA-256: b416a655f305ceefa0761941fb97ea0d0b6820ad7931b93c962cdb423d9fa706
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C1 15732 bytes
SHA-256: dc09478f6b2f84347e75b63d1cb5956ed8fc08f502b24cf643f2f6176fa09daa