Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9da2d47c04ad1a39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 22:14:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 230902c2953973a572c50c3dfa7a90a9 SHA-1: bc1a38ff2e7ac05e6aed926c12bf0719cd81a334 SHA-256: 9da2d47c04ad1a39b193d3ca74253ec4535d8f12ddaaaeefa25dae739d1e6912
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple external URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories. The document's structure and the presence of numerous links suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/duvawemupaxefukojajafax.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/pebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isleford.com/filespath/files/20210916131855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/63097717063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896e8a2852fa9d4b25d621737a87033d/41065687242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conniecorsentino.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vidijaluramesezabivaluvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sosibuzagawitaparilugerod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1106bf5639e4eb4613ba2e5841f707b/kunesulivoziki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f67f57da0---sijebegatamusovivabemesuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/mujipufopaviguzumodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/zamesago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b5de781e30---1239063280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trisad.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jigalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferdavagnar.is/images/fck/file/58885540531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/71772346315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pibar.tw/uploads/files/202109140402549523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/79546777596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/11058237067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janjoling.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44664270213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/zuvapibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsnmmaterials.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/mikadaniwefobut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210905060955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145672dc9478---98106352322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silky.ae/images/bulk_images/files/meniluleso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-akparat.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46932584533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=c+ops+hackPDF 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_off0000b4e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4E6 17580 bytes
SHA-256: f5f4e4f335a92cfac13401427c447d83d7cbaa24da61b46531439e510f186e96
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9FD 10024 bytes
SHA-256: afec3bccef16526a09d6efe0ced35f4d6519a3725a4b4f7149015ee85ab91715