Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dece49f3178533e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-28 06:59:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: aacddef1c766f805ad29f76582af1701 SHA-1: 37d6b26fb4f08084c4e6529d7a19e76171633637 SHA-256: 9dece49f3178533efe125b5257af0b2a6aebe2119b0e0ca94904651cdb79ea92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites. This pattern is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, where the initial PDF serves as a lure to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://talleresjpg.es/img/file/86591443422.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akifkasaboglu.com/esatfisek/images_upload/files/61611042701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1db50c971---85893981692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e08ea99136---vitexalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/61291820421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/34626138285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8ea99689a---28071498901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/ketutejutugole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor80.com/clients/866172/File/39197837445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43547ed346a80cf33bd90ab959be97d0/3325029758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbd0524f6d4b0c05e243d8f1c39e0543/78104694284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01e0a4ef8141207aa1cd63911bf465b9/12920548321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/xujegupotituvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609426c6ef7b0---56816185804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/27203695206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f0d6c00c5---fobujatujuraxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/luzeroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c5ec8f3f4---tujulazusobufasalasiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/ferilidabutiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+the+semicolon+mean+for+mental+healthPDF 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_off0000f035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF035 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001084c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1084C 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 5f39eb96058324829805ebaf0a36519b4ac75132aea16d31383de4d60912f445
font_02_sfnt_off000120c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C0 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 75d5344b04d7e2a86545067bf81b1933a90720f3d37492e24f34ec9da1e6331a