Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d5062176daf49f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:13:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4e5914d92033430585f9aeefc82a215e SHA-1: 100acbb66abf3a45f2d9f9828442a80eb401325e SHA-256: 9d5062176daf49f979fe5da515677f5154a82eeaaeb16941e7e3a2a769d78dae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, including one hosted on a compromised CMS upload directory. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3589489104---52918521348.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://archiw.gbpopatowiec.pl/img/upload/files/tisebobiramagufep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/51863448074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210805131043_8lejnp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/narimupaxapavapox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecotrans.vn/upload/userfiles/files/27755289284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0abd91230b875f602be83af87dc735c1/wesuwexurapopefusowikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/17656036991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/87505543380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lusagroup.mobi/images/website/user/files/gegitezapijoxatipesabolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/gazezikugaxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607099934527b---6510805392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://good163.cn/Uploadfiles/files/bavize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///kotuwidawakuvemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/37257906627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/rakikojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f9f3bdb8683c06e6e783179544e1193/wubaviveboxitusatetamaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/13724911451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muskogeeroughers1967.com/clients/9/98/9899c641331876fb313f08ec475a0443/File/mavorelipeduduligog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaangka.com/contents//files/vopovajujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/88780881748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b840e5a60970102aada57cda780bc465/36970289336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/90508821406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b77ed7609---35922781107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/28245908365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=gcse+physics+questions+pdfPDF 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_off0000e982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE982 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 5b8f8f23c8df45ea5798c6c5828b7666c65a09c8d23766b5e15fb007caa2a093
font_01_sfnt_off00010236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10236 18468 bytes
SHA-256: bd23deb5fca35867b9eace4bc50cfc0cea0ed7280554a0922b93e4cc06f2a483
font_02_sfnt_off000131cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1