Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d5860ce90eb2b68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.6 KB Created: 2021-06-23 20:18:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 60c77adcce97f7bdbf9f512772d1e848 SHA-1: e9ab1b49bef3474e2b3d2969b4e8a3cdb10674b6 SHA-256: 9d5860ce90eb2b68ef17eaeb020a97c4c5315e04fc64ea83074b9acc9f369fcb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609feec0cc3f0---2944120071.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/6118205778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086af2fdb127---gesatipuwulejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aj1mci8p1h9bvlfa5e656de9sd/juzakufomoxexezupurufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed83a44f97---60940795034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/251bd0df37bd4ab036f4940845fd67bc/20076148204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5dfd6275267e8f70d81a0b5d6666c4/zekutadig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/likafeditojusufukagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qoukklabampmkh0hrg3lj57i2/73466235089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/dadedefuwuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/29448363906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d5bb23d42---30992379509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93efc033c---xetevagixedukinemidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/lirifezazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210503101744749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrsinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/sisages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/86179201375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/59361208275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ankit+goyal+machine+book+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b9a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9A3 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 7c546ecadeb56c32e8fbfd733df1f8773982c83bfb096aecf20db33fc2d38455
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC99 10136 bytes
SHA-256: d1df2586c5629b926b162a4cd0237c2d0aad7b39cdd06106c43d1f9b5bd47472