Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dfcd25475a1262e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:49:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 000f17a2c329f78d69d037d617a9715a SHA-1: e7c04e68b65b8697ec4ceb69f6934eb7715476b8 SHA-256: 9dfcd25475a1262e00989ff00617cbca6af59b6e877864c5a8e99b38cc8a0398
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, including links to compromised CMS upload storage and link farms on disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=associated+legendre+differential+equation+pdf
    • https://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofanosabuxujavifome.pdf
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/46635006869.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/89058473729.pdf
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpdsjb1kvunmkrlj78p7pkcpcm/japelusirukopifepulawi.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d8917858c---71788176369.pdf
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/nifoxitefamuvubugip.pdf
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/nuxamin.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a1c97dfbafca38705b50cc90b626061/navudikakesadan.pdf
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82771978534.pdf
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/sugumata.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/bilezipagit.pdf
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/lunupezipotomuvefavusi.pdf
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/13583887631.pdf
    • http://mrtowing.ca/Lawyers/userfiles/file/metozewoxuva.pdf
    • http://upservice.expert/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fovigozufapibij.pdf
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cntjk50jn642qa1iq3cfcgelgg/nulogezixog.pdf
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.vn/images/files/majumuraxeru.pdf
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/69823082431.pdf
    • http://hyundainhapkhau.net/upload/files/80099469501.pdf
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/pukoxilidid.pdf
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/tojegaru.pdf
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb6eb6eef1a30f29d525d4177df80937/loregulab.pdf
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4p9lvlm6i45ptd303ijqkk1277/49420825770.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b14b6934c9---69947411914.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010385.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10385 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011b97.bin
3d8b47b209cb0d46b4cf18503801d84d5c2e947176ce40618d47accabbf7f87d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B97 20908 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001520e.bin
f7b0bc5178438a57e48e528dcede39c32650b0e03cf70484ce403b03c4a7a77f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1520E 11020 bytes