Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e04844a5f44f543…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 00:25:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c00981069a877f159e4707259fa9272b SHA-1: 224cc63b9132fd64d82bab4cd65ad9d4dac5a0a9 SHA-256: 9e04844a5f44f543b5ee814b022080f07e3e1c075fe52adbabbbc73a4dcf3eb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports a phishing or SEO poisoning attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27362968668.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210911001155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a3806aec6e---71513373784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lighthousemacau.com/html_upload/file/lupanijinisurubowipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143026880597---nirijetet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/fubavawewesutozejugowit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfect-gallery.com/userfiles/file/pojuwofixomutoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec600cd961---87640813920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/tupimilizinidumupeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ada8796958994376700b3e38c4ab174/gosujomizodolewedorafapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7508767929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/xefezetexigudevalakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelcenterpuntos.com/campannas/file/69149309422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.ru/img/file/446988579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/zudetefarazuteligozeluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///26783320955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202109202254578000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/jibesovakiwilixetalubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148bd642cb0e---66866477954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupiguwavikowugefosuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://attackworkoutprogram.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56101556224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/17050820756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/86837716767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjg.hu/images/file/pomunivumitinala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=work+it+full+movie+2020PDF 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_off000104fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011d12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D12 10436 bytes
SHA-256: fe1d2ef06dab3e56698486c6e62f39f3e798b61c6c3a548b1683b64850904a74
font_02_sfnt_off000134d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D5 17944 bytes
SHA-256: bcbecf4083648936cab812260b5675f85da274a51ab10ed79ac8d09bea868417