Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c0a68e29b2b442e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:53:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9daab5c4468ae8e633d7f1eed60e3481 SHA-1: 040ee984d2a35968a37ddb4f6e553029165bb2ce SHA-256: 9c0a68e29b2b442e7c462e5eb8c4d2e4e92f9e6b7ffd6813320e42a4d0543285
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate an attempt to lure victims to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aristophanes+the+birds+pdf
    • http://whitedwarf.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/ximafasekugexuj.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a92c3dd95---27506558862.pdf
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/vovof.pdf
    • https://ingatlanfelugyelet.hu/uploads/file/levipokejuzugaradawegafa.pdf
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161122653e46b5---pawiverutifuzi.pdf
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/94956627342.pdf
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/682256c1f2abbd645bde3651c1fa9168/muwosuw.pdf
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/52558410835.pdf
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/33247320944.pdf
    • http://motorlustor.net/userfiles/file/19645543792.pdf
    • http://thienlongadv.com/upload/files/liwozinewobojidabomuzirur.pdf
    • http://alfadent-volg.ru/images_uploads/files/89895632804.pdf
    • http://studioarchoggianiepartners.it/userfiles/files/22564757427.pdf
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/sigofigid.pdf
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/861e6aa9a5288860c54b768ad3947dc7/rulowemazilimevajav.pdf
    • https://bangprice.combangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/venunul.pdf
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents//files/xafugugakixukovatunaz.pdf
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/62351799240.pdf
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/novixubabigusadozut.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c29dd8f69---12317379923.pdf
    • https://vidaleve.ind.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95871428054.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/av8du1e0h3aveocaa4kora7onv/50548256242.pdf
    • http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/30089078530.pdf
    • 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_off0000d63c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee53.bin
3fabe736e7de812cf3d43ef6fcbaa56007c25e9a27814723f6bbb00ffe3fbf55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE53 10672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010683.bin
966c370ad932353cbf82d4fef0c8eff0890eaab26f13a06b12714c3315185189
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10683 17932 bytes