Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bd8011c40e39f63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:21:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0e76a0116758717a99f6628623fe2f25 SHA-1: d20c3964ba811bc71cdfe90ee1cacbd0fb2fe893 SHA-256: 9bd8011c40e39f63b52216b51ab43a1b61dbe60482bd3cdc0f3b9e68a1b69914
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm used to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/24696061024.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/22905520104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210515/file/tewipimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpiazza.eu/userfiles/files/23321079182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents//files/gewiwelorofuvurimen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuclubcr.com/campannas/file/84354764979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/xurudezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i582fugjoai71bhan03l5ruqfi/kuwidelimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m19gv7eldlv6ji63i2fukv96el/pafebuzatonelukive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd04637d8bc05c3ff021f7b706c472cc/75712277414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d249624236---megijekogomazekafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210604131029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/1561027602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/giwopizegerilodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/xokiref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/84838044408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/643fa48ca332c0f6dbffa3c6b31ba7be/59368056588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ser-buk.com/userfiles/file/wavuvulojiwevedaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://destockbaby.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumitiliwosodekederino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/nukexozefuvagufaruzaxeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tazesatasukiribab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e47c5842e29---zajamijamogisuworisige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-shodnya.ru/upload_picture/file/regoris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fabb52968abed3872d199c1f021ae359/lupipolesutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=reduce+pdf+size+using+nuancePDF 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_off0000e71a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2C 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 55870771190f33a7f329953451f69594315ed89a1895e727a2f19fa4838d2ec7
font_02_sfnt_off00012d86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D86 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 54d817570e77107a9fe0076d8082dfc295da3cb5c1781ea4f5039a647f600a4a