Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c7358d57d4dd947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-06-06 02:02:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 53d407891c424c6711047fda8cbaebcc SHA-1: c650a51be9c893e905e3f4d7d16f76007a7f3412 SHA-256: 9c7358d57d4dd9474bda8cdfe1e6f689ec8c8d6b9a3d286085da24851a327093
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. One prominent URL points to a file named 'youtube+for+android+tv_v1.0.5.3_apkpure.com.apk', indicating a lure to download a malicious Android application. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=youtube+for+android+tv_v1.0.5.3_apkpure.com.apk PDF link annotation
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d62f26e8e29bd753e0326b14ef9039f4/42475526456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c458a468bc6b4017cddcdc45a49f19a4/31943779482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hnoeh7hkp8lo8uldfr5msr0a69/jisudexexanebizubezonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863d2b6d143---16885331567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/459arm5i59dv3jh8ibpg0cslme/99657055241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee0dbf9159c4111c535e88b849b45c86/zolokatuvobudorajemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d5700af116663f4167c0e5ec7938a3a/duwanesakoditepabupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zuvovixamivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a114f377089---10118760982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e25987c1da8c243ba43238cc405e837/katojedemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aaa8af288f3711188d65e218331dfda/verexoviduxirutagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45513c78e65214864420498a310de646/dometejuvetonoromefumavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41c624542973a8cb086c312d63256e25/negusaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/tavotegaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7998016d43bc7191cb2c517f704c5250/xomijaluvotugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/29642938087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE94 5860 bytes
SHA-256: 52ec0e3dfd7b6ab7282c6be5d52f5ab0b399b7c501c6ba11610f9b55c728a3ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000e294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE294 9840 bytes
SHA-256: 1166b5d3f84a745d51ca8711f0746fd7a847ebd4182a948901611d9abc9b59de