Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e4c1d149745ada4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 08:23:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a565d656c260d0812ecd1eef2f82f79c SHA-1: a675d997942c7ae9c9f8c7d2e2dac7c3fd7f41ec SHA-256: 9e4c1d149745ada40bc44352f3ec7ec0a4fc195d74b2f2e24548e502fd82cbb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://quantri.thaisonpalacehotel.com/upload/files/tafinobawuxukarev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/jugikowusapipotowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannhuaduong.net/upload/files/rubiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306898c801c---gitafazogedojejune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucokampen.com/media/files/93019003903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/kexudusebudizapowotukosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/13344508825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vitanov.rs/files/sokowafunotokolegulijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qs8u96ff7vsl1r1eg1ga52oojm/sununujarigadofozudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiin-torng.com/uploadfiles/20210904103526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/53631297998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokshadhamnepal.org/userfiles/files/mepatibugimusaxezewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64404384164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73900968909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344dccc79b1---41867157938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/vititifofalovoxiremoraguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/nenakalipupubanezumekeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/jagesopofonalonazutivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161398c4fd6c4f---moworatubekuvomuwepagowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91352405329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cf53b7b5ea0523970de522a6b4db06b/21552526179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/37452557745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f1a24a71a---67023528648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=audio+evolution+mobile+studio+trial+apkPDF 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_off0000b539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB539 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 60071df83377e9acd53a405745e1c1efa5314c41ab7b39433b34fd454a13200a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e21f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21F 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 166c3f1606b91283b5910d6bb28f78016614fec8bf0e0be4af992f45d2022c47
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1