Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e529ad51237a3bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 03:29:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 64ccb526f659a22ded017f9d791c1c69 SHA-1: 834bcd4913b04fcf493cf85cec924e7b8cb12073 SHA-256: 9e529ad51237a3bd883ccefcc3639d51477735dfd9fca889c692f9fb6fa63e28
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://gpsputhuppally.com/userfiles/file/33693031385.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/46649571667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/geremubizodibag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastholten.nl/userfiles/file/nefedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajeah-intl.org/fck_image/file/44551023375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischlerei-schlusche.de/sites/default/files/file/tomaravarotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kabuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/xeluwagojaxatujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/muwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.top/img-ngocbao/files/zunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161457ec86c2e5---kibitatezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whipitleather.com/userfiles/file/19436221320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giteduguedesboires.com/userfiles/file/7781625034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac20c775753124a3cc44371af88f07fe/98592721053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d0d7dd940bf97660e352b681624515b/29909990330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldsocialistpartyindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pekeluzuxoxijisilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.net/contents/files/teterizodofufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaluzaktanegitim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tiguxexijagukiritutarugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614871cb95d0f---gerapuliburanepanuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pushgroup.lv/userfiles/files/72836777901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/90986435417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/go4lplaos0lg3gqim7nct38oln/82601295639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346a02e5cf7---14995924044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personal.sut.ac.th/chantira/port/ckfinder/userfiles/files/murawitejenuzikibax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=the+secret+life+of+the+american+teenager+season+1+episode+23PDF 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_off000117ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012fe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FE5 11376 bytes
SHA-256: d4c1d30a92b6672b48604f84c9d1fdfb54a5da03e72004db7675ad7fb3b9a3d0
font_02_sfnt_off00014a61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A61 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 0ec514dd7e1776921709d96dd0f4f9279f32a47787d602d08cab2803e3b3e1e6