Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9df5cee83d5fd021…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 16:59:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: c204db57b2344914b02b67fff84b3a01 SHA-1: 11a6bbeb11beee70fecead5bc2e0d092bdaa4ddd SHA-256: 9df5cee83d5fd021d55082e8a58aa140110e625bb6406384ded9b1b3e9942519
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is unreadable binary data, suggesting it is not intended for direct user consumption but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://funbugs.ie/userfiles/file/87021492203.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alebusph.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/94997964634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afurg.com.br/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fosebidaxalubetabufemobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maximaviajes.com/FCKfiles/file/telasabalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/39615308344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/23580467974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/83888956103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabresources.com/FCKuploads/file/bilibufowusejaxovelugodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pre-www.bridge-college.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/dopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/51660624056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/74050497700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133094f87b86---woriwuwonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falconshipping-uae.com/userfiles/files/xajulimexaxoxibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakijirajovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gunns6g4fuqqpbjo09f6irkm6/86083149980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wadali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/nokafivaritaziniforakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/20558148957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/32725493779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/rewetixebanupejujeparuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/64691818735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319f332483d---11122690907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/pixogujemafogase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muxixudopotavifakokujakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniuniversity.in/ci/userfiles/files/89887187913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/dejelunetebipev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-room.co/userfiles/file/desixavepuluri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/84933962491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=mile+ho+tum+humko+song+download+mp4PDF 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_off0000bc40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d452.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD452 19588 bytes
SHA-256: 6fbd85634535dc14f738132b93897366e18b55c6a360094797abd0eadd5f56f2
font_02_sfnt_off0001070d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070D 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 62d2d46cfd8082e4c39be4a6a6d9f702d2192cedf04f2311dbabf51d3c927358