Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d0a150f8175e1c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-10-06 08:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8282d3fa5086af3c74a4217d535544f6 SHA-1: 7fb17554198b324c1f08f12f46dc9150a0ffbcf8 SHA-256: 9d0a150f8175e1c458d75145bba7c70076860ae4941e2d3b93149c2eacf862e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination and potentially engage in SEO poisoning for phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://forma8.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43025663852.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vilnius.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/42101275741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage3.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/rufepewobow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37b568a75d8d2f6032747b9f18be8104/ratexekobapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ef626c613ba274a1117065ad4865454/gavunaremukokigepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41211344142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f907bcc9423cc9c6f9088fb947549a8f/natuzarebonizokonuxekebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zssadkowice.pl/pliki/79646806292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/gifawiroseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/boxujinogitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://axlthailand.com/imagexx/files/94665480988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/51799923458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dream-mebel.com/pic/file/nobevaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/puxulukaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/95973763334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/lodidegefabisagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/rezutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eca.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/furugavomumefolevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/bejugaxodilegasetuvexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluvioneschicamocha.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68752138723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pgprojekt.pl/Upload/file/14908394979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161587a9033cde---79351390633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=irish+rugby+song+fields+of+athenryPDF 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_off0000d591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD591 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0992c4a72bd98db787b7361a9f9e13e4693a34f06e49efac6f78ad1678e1e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9E 20308 bytes
SHA-256: f1b922e0fcf9278c5bf4968d13558a627a449c2d0dfaca0939fb6afed58c404c
font_02_sfnt_off000122eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1