Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d154e06d3c7cd16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 05:05:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e76dde7f5bbb0522838fc1fa94465220 SHA-1: 7c51af613b8299a9435845edfbed9b2e4a197961 SHA-256: 9d154e06d3c7cd161f740c59632d77cabf898170b6e9e0e0fbce99fe513d50fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to lead the user to malicious content.

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 http://metzlerranch.com/userimages/29134060257.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fluorescent-training.com/file/6069502387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/28560906147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351822ef7b5---45125262518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakakmanis.com/contents/files/duxiloxadozonanabuvelapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/17472175636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/nozilejupukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/57615429785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/49033140170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202109/file/210902144329983090ahh92pm3lc88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delta-serwis.pl/pliki/59482543706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/55923273951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/matego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetalk.jp/app/webroot/img/fckfiles/file/1335859119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaimano.it/file/vigodusovuxuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396f2ae1ea0---32098093798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daks-96.com/f/uploads/files/wavafarovedevewarifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28405087790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73416172833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsteelstock.com/d/files/56590151306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130543a442e0---21249169909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.smartplus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowefonofoxekowubagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcrlclient.gilcom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukexijel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents/files/tuguko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sword+art+online+season+2+ep+25PDF 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_off0000ecab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104BD 19552 bytes
SHA-256: 93d4a5b09dada2abc260c443bece93aa731435d0737dd7ac77c5caf715b4366a
font_02_sfnt_off000137e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137E3 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 74c10b3564bde6d2a7c2bfd32bc492403861d0521470f7b86fd9022bd76ac28e