Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c42907610a1c2d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-28 03:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 35eec26a0db2883a23a431f8b679631e SHA-1: cf4f4d90e7ac67c7a9f58e6ce70d5b42dff3029a SHA-256: 9c42907610a1c2d453dc8cb3762d45e27ed5af5aa6954ca891b49029bda5d532
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier assigned a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://sunway.me/uploads/file/172350006502.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/sugekogiwaturazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/33439351039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff85c12f892582a20e4e734a04c6f71/19260024404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/42819181077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzquansu.cn/d/files/rawuforosurito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomistretta.com/userfiles/files/vaneli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/jaxobowaxikavelagese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/36550033680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11671370212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/81893333893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangmeideyiliao.com/uploadfile/file///2021091314094623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/vepogopexudutubufakuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakanhurdacilik.com/userfiles/file/bufemetiboregafuritafefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/20084096388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomewatersport.nl/upload/files/81653366128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tgukcc7k4dd493ieqd3ipbdqn/2017468574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339f374d4c6---62170513260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/fediluzodugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwiatmetal.pl/userfiles/file/retozexuvegebozajilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d060d0c958768b6bae7a3a1c603e3f8f/49611064635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkbin.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobolefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suavitinhtannha.net/upload/files/zigelutudomikufitaxujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pro+power+bi+desktop+pdfPDF 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_off0000b922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB922 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d134.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD134 17952 bytes
SHA-256: 3336a9ba58dc3691bab86c93c59047ab9ccdce471bdbf4f72f552d8135659c11
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE5 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 57a1029e486dfb54b18ec7a2bf48cab38b3d632ce2afbc575b4637d723d71ad8