Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9df2a453b05fb698…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:08:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f8dad695a74e7bb3c3dbc488242ce0f1 SHA-1: a87b6295e6f71623fb8fe12c084a7f9ea3a49736 SHA-256: 9df2a453b05fb6983ffde42c55fcd7d4f7f1da7051abcf3e4d9ced03fa0d243f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external websites. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious or phishing sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pick+up+artist+techniques+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://pahsclassof2005.com/clients/d/d6/d61c4c031b0f3af13d3e88110ef3a3e1/File/wiludojakotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/82380185876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce5df4e33e---2840457529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608009251883d---35534864861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selispin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58030187269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/suxilulubenumuboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.ca/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/96617191932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-17/20210617211238988396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7859t3aqifb5n6q99kqa13oktr/33264731136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26611d2cdd25eceae5f472f67ce5dbb3/18280084931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trumoi-khutrung.com/upload/files/59291648517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/65168664120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0eec472fb---70501503668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082087ebcaac---39328103352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa86b990ba---25183182930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd09d0df3ef---serabinunugeduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/87823613814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfaf554f9072781244eadc3d46e01384/67409338937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e464f321437---11984263431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3245e0ac9c---57605524675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riosemarescentrodemergulho.com/ckfinder/files/42532235734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b840fb05f627e587108160a2366d9913/rebigimixibumidagagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/jubosemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.workbythai.com/admin/assets/images/vevivisomabo.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_off0000ec36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC36 10892 bytes
SHA-256: f269ab48835f92f2809bb6d3c23f645f5654785ae35bb3d377231c10a5273653
font_01_sfnt_off00010530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10530 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D42 18464 bytes
SHA-256: 8a8175701d8ea7e0aa01181b482641c4a8bee0b4da50b6636c1f88e3ddaec18b