Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dc160e69605f484…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:11:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: af7486e5af3b3330a5cd680dff877c0f SHA-1: 9b4589da28545360aed9823a5bfd82819155b018 SHA-256: 9dc160e69605f484de8d45da9e093002b398e26bc5d008ca9d75181aac9a34c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards the use of JavaScript for malicious redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=video+recorder+screen+download PDF link annotation
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/sofolide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/xukevabalafawikefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifudafuvirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northwestpixie-bobs.com/clients/e/e1/e1941a3904c49320334fd90e0ed9e852/File/2717942683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/nuvedomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba17eb843945dbcaca381b113f56826d/93049188402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/piribura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/70550183102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609884f6e5f4e---2068392015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16070ef0d83190---24258778973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a221fc3ec0---difuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97795897115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f14ed9bf6f3546e4673f8ea6b576e903/90836362050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088329b9694e---90324876412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e96902e86f4eb3f7ff0ed52bda44dda/fesixiguwetefogifexepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8990ef3a2f6235c43af85b822bc038e/23262535467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25c6eb84ef---gibubabutiruxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pfveukl1059ongl27q5vc6thi/nobevubedisami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togeltop.net/contents//files/wezajuxoviboxelewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/57157189418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/rugapebavumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5ea5da8cc367157ede270707e5657d1/tidoditavewamaxerewokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3a9cc745ee7cb847a6402e12a4ebe58/piwibugobokuvagufipuruxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe8a943b63---72399969618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/zifibifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e9ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9EC 10320 bytes
SHA-256: aa72c0836648341467f41520befdd22279e410692c4c2f9d90003b10820d5a79
font_01_sfnt_off00010151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10151 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11963 16712 bytes
SHA-256: 56044f4f5a2c45fe74c9bb40628e90711755f2454cb6cc86a02de758156ad8d8