Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bd98d2f8eaccb7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-10-04 06:33:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4c2bb44999cccd4cf51d3c3631306231 SHA-1: 06da3129a2b5c77825cf55f7900af10555ca9f0c SHA-256: 9bd98d2f8eaccb7ec7037b9294471807fc7bd2a01c35c4b1ca4a9f397866d5fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokokixanakin.pdf
    • https://hoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/tazabosajufazokuloworon.pdf
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/wibikeli.pdf
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rveeb4hjhd1idclk51fv5j8ql/5424671597.pdf
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161449e290d527---50726188787.pdf
    • http://aleshashop.net/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/kepozi.pdf
    • https://asmitahrgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41645866476.pdf
    • https://www.informacion-indoorclub.com/boletines/img/file/59652212054.pdf
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95633233870.pdf
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/6007837289.pdf
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/14923280696.pdf
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/zupelelolufolubos.pdf
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/zibena.pdf
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143ad1b27f0b---57626317198.pdf
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/72353613681.pdf
    • http://bolt-go77.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/pupasa.pdf
    • https://coop-alternatives.fr/images/images/zewuwewabasubexixije.pdf
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/75769631535.pdf
    • https://rts-wm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2771735749.pdf
    • http://napiarsaigh.com/images/guwapodagamaweluxu.pdf
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/70685750142.pdf
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/xularolupavejenaz.pdf
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents/files/wixovedofixaj.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9592fb931a276f1e284614fafdc60b20/xujux.pdf
    • http://plaschke-partner.com/uploaded/file/27512120343.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=architectural+drawing+scale
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b1da.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1DA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9ec.bin
fc3aa40790480226c075eaaa315808d621662ae070cc90b2b026d57ac81a4848
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9EC 16576 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f445.bin
a0ab65f1524a5d2c5d3c75143e7ee2ec474984d850dd2e8c1e9d5c2e8e87f327
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF445 10696 bytes