Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e5233dcd1f99dd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-28 23:10:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5789af1dc932322452c1ffbcf270d63f SHA-1: ca7a42d27a9e92ee0015baf5d755b6f1abb6256a SHA-256: 9e5233dcd1f99dd3466c7493ea3493c4984a85f69702b753af93e8c8ecf340e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting or compromised sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sensor+manager+android PDF link annotation
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/gabosorixukukikizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/varekijusafipavezewenipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b562378fbf8ad2cfd55051346ac3a99/98999314754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12503101071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laserinnsbruck.com/static/winuzejopiluxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210913_164519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210926080040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrfirework.com/images/file/ligigaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/92310292049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-27/20210927044632244708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/69069889266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/mivoxirivikifufekafozamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/dajubatale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/julaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/646169352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friulanapanini.com/images/file/23802234506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/09/07/file/20210907_044846_187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d752735e13---26177481462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31acb3fa76f679d5b24fd06fd9ebdd2e/pigise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/mobikunofomufagosatanag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlquality.com/userfiles/file/28887461745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/51052705251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart.sut.ac.th/tsme/src/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/warijawatekerakarot.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_off0000afc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7DB 15800 bytes
SHA-256: 41d619e6373dd71476785231ea74878103afd32b47c13e7650ad22bfee11f4e0
font_02_sfnt_off0000efce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFCE 10520 bytes
SHA-256: d122a72e799dbfc1afeec51ead07b2d3ea33842598390098c1055e41d897cba8