Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d0ecdf66a54bd4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-29 12:13:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 251d4b6365eb0b4be252eabe4c754df5 SHA-1: 335d8d6654db369c7010d16e757f640442d7f271 SHA-256: 9d0ecdf66a54bd4f0a9ddc933983a2019b4396d8f11128a1006035b33c884a21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload delivery. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further support the phishing lure hypothesis.

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+checkmark+icon
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/mitonutorulifilazubidof.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ec84123cf---rinonuparomotitok.pdf
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/65606414621.pdf
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/jofinuzugaje.pdf
    • https://hawkseyetravels.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48667399464.pdf
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50496389571.pdf
    • http://manvilastrust-org.bvirani.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piledibuwumevut.pdf
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kivisaxipuzat.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/damedipugexinabinasix.pdf
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/woruwadelovurilubu.pdf
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/72849195074.pdf
    • https://transport.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/metafalozazelofina.pdf
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bobit.pdf
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e6711d0e9---nivelutija.pdf
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/file/80563669864.pdf
    • https://kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66066412146.pdf
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/vatuvikilizevupe.pdf
    • https://hockeymro.ca/docs/file/96744472739.pdf
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c7280e5a24---libuwevenalilojugebixuf.pdf
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/9058722128.pdf
    • https://jsptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61284655619.pdf
    • http://mailcontact.jp/uploads/files/71497726331.pdf
    • 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_off0000de6c.bin
d737a4e549ede787765c5d9eecafec2c965ba43f6e250b759f0152226910e59f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE6C 10396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5b2.bin
3e19ce227774ffa4e12e7f179ae66dce8edc80eb246d80881596e500f884c084
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B2 18724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012631.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12631 16792 bytes