Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d006fb017e228a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 18:27:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 41d9cae41db4b9e458f01de853361d43 SHA-1: a499c0c8e8f12fd73648a9786afdf9a4cdf82410 SHA-256: 9d006fb017e228a3fcb68df53ff502487f7943db3c6a8533d39485351931f6c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, a common technique for distributing phishing lures or directing users to exploit kits. Heuristics indicate these links are hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, increasing the likelihood of malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adenocarcinoma+mucinoso+de+pulmon+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/89083321273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobmedia.hu/include/raxosepuvifesorukugate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/6131b7dfb6c94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vroa.pl/chplusfiles/file/denepozefovejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekainternetowa.net/_mdm_apteki/file/7175834131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/87020135063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youzedu.com/ckimages/files/20210901155516344802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/xiturabivudilefono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/41756885858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-baby.ru/userfiles/file/vidixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-xian-coat.com/uploads/files/202109010729599334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f5d0cf4b8---62825166267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/18302767098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/70408002151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339a6934faf---gexudujurizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/zazulapigimawamidizavived.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/kolupovovevevazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/xuropakerekunavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/telatozabanotiparajaludod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wang023spa.com/userfiles/202109file/2021090520262370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613042ccdeb7d---revopojatusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dwitunggaljaya.com/sitefiles/file/reposinetefigevufugikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/92263727402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etoprosto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38224469386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrier.exma.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95918714518.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e6a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A5 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 7a782ce1bc1aa3676311413bb680a561876376a52cdb0cf1e16db0447d19369c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11771 19376 bytes
SHA-256: 73c675d0b2cde4ece28d6d71e3f99f2bb9816a86d2fecda158c7cb656a8f4613