Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c023e33407f4b0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 10:02:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 893fb476d066de7f863ef0e63039a2e9 SHA-1: 9b6e1b57aff2c29d86696ed50fba50e17f28d8cd SHA-256: 9c023e33407f4b0b5ec6fbfc82398c9282b46d69b7acdad46ebe657a4aa2a08b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://buonoantonio.it/userfiles/file/45988004848.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://freewest.at/muvosopuwulavikuvaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawarids.org/mpfiles/file/lugugobibunozaxisadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tktravelkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_AA5B18C48EBE7A95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/698348608ad1eb1f0e7a5bd8090e911e/37941815855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mptech.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58919238901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/1807073890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24253679069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelborgodeipoeti.com/userfiles/files/71803100157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e5292b8604a8185b4ac00c5cc5f0a36/lemamesasixivolivabebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/20219131924199472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy-office.it/userfiles/file/81160948172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/tijilemonegufisigunato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyrunarser.com/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php/upfiles/file/210919231306158536zxsbxx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614351af8cabd---nefokogovefofemegido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aukshanya.promosing.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7443027770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/texowavegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/gakogivawomunufidijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a550d802096bd5a862ed21eb993bae14/bulesodobomevafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/ruzazefifefegokaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wivasumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hichipper.com/hichipper/uploadfile/file/2021090117113973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geomanteia.com/userfiles/files/76458536173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=gat5+mobile+download+apkPDF 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_off0000d9e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E2 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 2ef89b4bff45720f49258b3e536577035ed26e7eb5863cbaba6595742bf4fe39
font_01_sfnt_off0000f28f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA1 17716 bytes
SHA-256: cf76b1c6c5864dae0a72f9b118ed2d8628ae2ffa3ffa25b340536b3e4d1e5bd8