Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c76131c30a2e567…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:32:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d5b66ae1628ccebd8cbe3be7a66e0cb0 SHA-1: 5480f03dbaf218001d19d8e79b566597a34333ae SHA-256: 9c76131c30a2e5674cb2c9221239115521d346d00b28672c70fcc76d792ff7ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://cistenivytahu.cz/upload/file/43931536156.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/21018918241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84829364785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1ent.com/userfiles/file/20210902030648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swotaweb.com/img/upload/file/boxotafuboxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jadodurunijuvivisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/zijovezajedowofapetubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcbarrett.com/user_area/file/8713092854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/96777421941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/nupumemizemewetosebuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.organicemall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tewidoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rhvhqdm3ad5cdnufjruisbo6h0/jujaposizijosuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xadivanekobeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/73318434932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85063681197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/2273750590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomnuocebara.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/fotoruwusubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/jobokegilibede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sanjuktabanerjee.com/fckimages/file/15725588960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342195ab80d---42767612704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozora.schaffsen.com/contents/file/71021029031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0v41fal146t9taafjsf4gbhu2v/32640886753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=apple+iphone+5+32gb+price+in+bangladeshPDF 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_off0000d784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD784 18804 bytes
SHA-256: fbbb52782f04e27acf7eaaa65bbad293e391bbe4714ea4f5fc27081e3bd8fcc6
font_01_sfnt_off000109d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D6 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 3dda81ac7ad31d5ab6a6fce15ff20a316e7edae66926d95a8662c4f2c0c18e25
font_02_sfnt_off000123c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1