Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e6394f105432e87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 11:31:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a01e9d77c6cb07ecc94e78c7efe3022e SHA-1: 1bcc2dfc82c6ea1bb40dcbe826d7eaaf2d862dbf SHA-256: 9e6394f105432e8708285209a70089bdaf3ed52ae4dab053ac39e77d3449b6f0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://oreopay58.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3342351955.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cmorshomecareassociates.org/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/68026533656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aytekinpolatel.com/image/files/61571775179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/jakisaxoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f0c63ac175203da21812eb048121ceb/gidilunonisamupumefetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/motuxabujifisijugawunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvezda-pardubice.cz/files/file/joxova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscreen.in/cmsfiles/file/jeturopewodazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccf9bd8918087e268ef2dc8c8078523b/xabuvodakumafufefutago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae41f132b2---xudazat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qtuu5knumau1q1f567g4jjsm0/34348303404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613292406076e---fuxevidoxotawumudadirepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/76709673300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/mebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbikhachsanvinhhung1.com/upload/files/nawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmaramures.ro/userfiles/file/wogikupebumanuxavubagabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a39451e7d3---koruvigaduxilumiluzerorev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetypadlocks.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/10365870830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terredellamagnagrecia.com/userfiles/files/tanovalugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockeydh.com/files/ups/files/bedepomiviranona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/25640129283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70789700646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siroyensao.com/upload/files/67191163317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374ee33cf66---36438574235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=galaxy+wearable+esimPDF 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_off0000bd40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD552 17388 bytes
SHA-256: ef142d623387a8922ad56e87022bbfc14f11900efc5a3dce31ba6d470d5f99e2
font_02_sfnt_off000101b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B6 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 216803ad603adb647d7ba985fb995781414b82da2739b22041fa30dd7d169e9b