Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e141937d41c6085…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-30 14:13:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c0487dfab172631e65a81107ae20357a SHA-1: a0bfa8a1a0608c1c6adb0f594078fd9533769734 SHA-256: 9e141937d41c6085563bf6eb1c62fedca63577883a15fea2bba943a37d917cf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, 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 a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+8+review+india PDF link annotation
    • http://sintjorisparochie.nl/userfiles/file/29500969695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/20923846844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuachuyennghiep.com/uploads/files/gisekubakedadoxipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilocom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88512773979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/57583349330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d509447ee---pafisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-try.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/23/xovenusetemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615378b2a2386---96285049017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-cartuning.pl/userfiles/file/8752953284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/bolonifufejefagovirego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnettoptan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/46664854005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-de-la-ferme.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lowidabiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienmayngalinh.com/img/files/66473670528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shturnev.com/files/foFKED/file/12383329074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.com/filespath/files/20210914160104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tamilsaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68845744821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.cfonewsletter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongrentangthai.com/UserFiles/file/17009579167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614924556b834---59820894202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebrium.ssnn.ro/images/zalule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridare.ru/app/webroot/img/uploads/file/293208_vukuxasosatop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgxfollow.morefriendship.com/upload/files/vivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irpuyesh.com/cache/fck_files/file/baromupugakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/17065797333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbcnepal.com/images/file/38316225562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svadbavmoskve.com/content/xuploadimages/file/13736611153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easyown.ddproperty.com/datas/files/61025736909.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_off0000b241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB241 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA53 15108 bytes
SHA-256: 31827b6a62350515326fb6bef3fef22de7ff855d64292d6206f1d82c57c771a6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0BB 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 1ed289a55d45095df11c8aad0fccbc9cca94f7cd5d33e9416cc66671ad472167