Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b9153e70d1f1040…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 12:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9099fb8293a443b92503478e71df443b SHA-1: 10e438b93f45073059f2967862d2777f1892389d SHA-256: 9b9153e70d1f10408d6136f57af2b9a687e68a934fecfbb26cb37524919e16f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on disposable domains and compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+bible+app+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/miziloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanlawyer.com/filespath/files/20210908145810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltpbetel.ro/userfiles/file/vutukezelijugavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lijijefuladudunoxileguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/45033218659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/nedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkapsikoloji.net/userfiles/file/putemonojopumadopirame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613056e0a186a---74173892060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137709ee13a5---38731376187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicareyou.com/userfiles/file/vavogedefofunulakufadumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/sopoxobomikefikile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/tojajevujibipanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/file/38219825072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///86551064437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/83137201586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52755096210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargobull.cz/res/file/dubobagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/xagafubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydchem.cn/filespath/files/20210903234815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukmpevsa7bjdonpgso30pd99im/lekadizagukemojisupilirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/sesuforajumufereso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.net/upload/nalixugopotokexakowipope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/rumesovogumenelumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f17b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17B 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 9a5db2413f8595cf9e63bdfaaaad8f58683bcc558c68e9108d1f3f39ee3e1b66
font_01_sfnt_off000109a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A7 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 6f5819400b45738c3da0f2f31513924dc6a85129eefa88f2755b421fba3e7a58
font_02_sfnt_off00013864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13864 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1