Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dea9b9bdf49b199…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:04:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3038397a3ac51caf564c3304603b221e SHA-1: 3bf9cab76d102e6cf8a74e795c67c7965cc3abd9 SHA-256: 9dea9b9bdf49b19912fd6158809dc684e8bd587b34a48969b54907949526b87f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest the PDF is intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sultan+full+movie+mx+player PDF link annotation
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/76815274835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shindah.com/images/ckeditor_img/files/9321115321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/48880063975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/71717045218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asid.rw/userfiles/file/vabitowutavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgrafika.cz/userfiles/file/xazamenuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radtel-sport.pl/userfiles/file/nonusomewijizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuyu.010bi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rosusomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dennismaloney.ca/upload/editor/file/fasolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f6b1750d6---99527904565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80962904840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143530adc3e3---87442500152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-13/20210913234628571642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/320495e3232334c84da0d9aa5bf86f65/77812790447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmfnepal.org/userfiles/files/busazose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hizirferforje.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/images/file/2851396021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starroadchina.com/userfiles/file/48857338197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polytex.de/sites/default/files/dowojedavuzolorebofovizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technimexvn.com/images/ckeditor/files/72795167529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designsdubaiukfashion.com/userfiles/file/webomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkert.hu/files/file/pupazifelewelelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralgiving.com/media/userfiles/file/wamuleradopolemuvimitasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e1a602190---9735574630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cnn-logistics.com/asset/files/jumobafederi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextlab-semi.com/files/fckeditor/file/guwexewekiwumatoratupagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/45668672319.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_off0000e214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE214 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 10e7defa169fff3ee08ced6ff68cb55e6124e8b24ebf11cc4eb138d758a7dbf6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB09 18788 bytes
SHA-256: a5d7b85594fa94c7e2a97798978addd66c71ef7e77cbd717fef27c0a9c18f8ca
font_02_sfnt_off00012c3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1