Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cdb3fc5d7e66240…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-10-05 16:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 95196786cc1ab471ce67a93b20ca16a0 SHA-1: d16284a4f6395b4010eda756e783e79d76767f1c SHA-256: 9cdb3fc5d7e66240eb1b4488e3341b58e64036fba48c3bb460071cf6f1bf596f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. The primary function appears to be redirecting users through a network of links, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/gukivamojirog.pdf
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210903055353.pdf
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/tasololimukaj.pdf
    • https://airxps.com/userfiles/files/wedoxi.pdf
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/92074840557.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8310c77430db3251b6a86d497a98ca1/bilalisusitorafolamowinuw.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387f51ab161---nefosaxiruposalopig.pdf
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/65450474816.pdf
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_3C9A7670C757FF73.pdf
    • http://malovanesklomh.cz/images/file/18783027615.pdf
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep5r6kbih2kk9utnra4dkpm81m/xeduxolipagimofagirobaril.pdf
    • http://aptekadc.pl/userfiles/userfile/18594674111.pdf
    • https://solidpractise.com/files/userfiles/file/wufufarulavofosovanu.pdf
    • http://flapboxes.com/userfiles/files/vafivik.pdf
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/30956756113.pdf
    • http://hoilhpnqbthanh.com/upload/file/fabijipik.pdf
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/vikesofenilogevisit.pdf
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mewezajivosupazumisawuw.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09d94416fb17269c61086e5fa2bc523b/1349031932.pdf
    • http://ysmenmidwestindia.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/74519619002.pdf
    • http://hstairan.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/mudegopesatate.pdf
    • http://video-cycling.de/files/file/31896670241.pdf
    • http://gddfboiler.com/uploads/files/xelagelokexinuse.pdf
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/4660422566.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f7400de2a---63322243021.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=lincoln+county+warrants
    • 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_off0000b2cc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2CC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cae3.bin
f004f4e99067d62adec8e862b5ec333cf5398cd85b48c427076ec28dd0c52e59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAE3 10348 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e274.bin
67d18ef52ed1c08515da352a8ff368a62dae660c55563e4afe5060c2cc780f35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE274 15752 bytes