Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c84f569484a67f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:05:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 12f80646e5e5be27cf8c1a46fdb2e3f3 SHA-1: cd4cfda4e238f1d6513b8d29ac00f562962bd873 SHA-256: 9c84f569484a67f5bfd42f1a10e395374c3209fdd8c4e998a5333213403ced56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://downtowncincyhotels.com/core_degree/admin/images/cms_imagesfiles/73761093670.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366aa3bfe38---27875140331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_37227ACEE0F9931F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medob.org/SITE/files/editor/file/ledib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52332457946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plymouth-logs.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagijudanigafujebexejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insei.eu/userfiles/files/23956834073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/30486451454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/55437909704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/74941361168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84190145272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98719293427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/75029959829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/97937242798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunianco.com/other_files/File/26022234110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bftt.marketsearching.com/upload/files/92891800981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hnhaa.com/userfiles/tnejp/files/39230157090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8fbcbe3a221d53898bb243f83caf0ed/kukolegadoxivamekalabades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demircanticaret.com/userfiles/file/batowageguved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klgd.spokoino.ru/i/upload/files/pawuvafegixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsahimmongol.com/uploads/images/files/pidada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slr-eyewear.com/slr/userfiles/20210903143904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed62b2fa78---62612531311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=android+kitkat+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_off0000d73e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD73E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF55 10112 bytes
SHA-256: e970d40c2bafcd79d226b59ee719e605704fcfffaf98efab95e100bc7a5d205c
font_02_sfnt_off000105f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F7 20460 bytes
SHA-256: 4e6b006f17d78223ab7a2be24ebd62713bdac4988b1db7bf7a5f12fbb51a7063