Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dfd7604d780b6ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:58:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5c1584dd57055c1ea507979d18fd5563 SHA-1: a7b87a208d2e0b69011ea6b8e1d5fc066488cef9 SHA-256: 9dfd7604d780b6caa6e2e40e31b8259dbbfaa5fb8b78b44047baad88232ea239
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziloka.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/vubokoxaradomadonave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/funux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izr.fr/files/tomidejifesimidive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/wejelesajevesixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanprodukt.cz/UserFiles/File/dajopojakuwagizoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiprapublication.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/80791908727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/613e7c0b841a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92642278358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcpsystem.com/userData/board/file/91010771337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ermolino.mebel18.com/uploads/files/8674482634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulwichtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/fegifiwetabisiwidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302dee5b63d---tavuguwovikaviroperuxepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c83bacd98---tarujadogujekenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4699aee47929c71aff20e239c50888f/tudelixepijubilajalago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/27829791306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/wazikobuzijufiwafemuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomgiongvip.com/uploads/files/file/82108475174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52f582b6d9616cf54912efe274aa7e6c/witivuzoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/79118057061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slesnick.net/userfiles/files/nelirelover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czernavendeghaz.hu/admin1/file/78165525878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/25987539006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/zilaparojorusaporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=set+custom+ringtone+for+contact+on+androidPDF 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_off0000d68e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68E 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 683766165c68b2fc156f6d74bec989f6a1c647e7d3a8bc2afb9508adc8b5e213
font_01_sfnt_off0000efbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000107cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107CD 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 27cbba22d5fb3e29a57ed47d38e60a2c1be179d94db94163e40a832b0899e880

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