Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e63ef33a74f3b06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:09:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 48b9a3c03428db7fe452b5b9b1f0a17d SHA-1: 9e9ed28c84a51c8856533b5a42e4b736e12c9a0e SHA-256: 9e63ef33a74f3b06cd19e7c2f095ab4bd5a6bd7f412b36a7ab66e228e314948a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a likely attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, consistent with phishing or malware distribution via a spearphishing attachment. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://www.hgekc.com/media/userfiles/file/xobutuzuxepidigodoguri.pdf
    • https://firmabudowlanawalczak.pl/web/uploads/files/54298596872.pdf
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/gorukole.pdf
    • http://smirna.pl/files/file/35099939653.pdf
    • http://zatuchlina.cz/upload/file/98120326099.pdf
    • http://tchid.net/userfiles/file/97549641271.pdf
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/rosepinatum.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138387dc7ead---63168487305.pdf
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bamakomovebupunabifi.pdf
    • https://ezokniga.com/uploads/file/77016706198.pdf
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents/files/68793779711.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/umpouhqh6c8bqi484isevqs7ie/54659094917.pdf
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b58a13be3856a528680953054736f57d/xufesedo.pdf
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/sabekokokuwazonakeren.pdf
    • https://vleek.com/uploads/files/41405160314.pdf
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wofekulafebexed.pdf
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixufibanoxuzozegoloxijex.pdf
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/sinabifub.pdf
    • http://alrabbanoilandgas.com/file/files/jodozigisafomuzasokile.pdf
    • http://itena.si/uporabnik/file/64198443430.pdf
    • http://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/muwewebodeko.pdf
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/xunuf.pdf
    • http://cissi.it/userfiles/files/bivedotizububevi.pdf
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77758856574.pdf
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/37944340920.pdf
    • http://lecieldesandes.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubabewoxanetod.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+share+multiple+images+in+android+programmatically
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de17.bin
31261ce12e57f581e3ab62e6f68ad3d30fc5854959fea6e2522749bc7c284848
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE17 11252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f827.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF827 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011039.bin
7f7ea8596c997ea14c8777b709e4bf24608b149b4c09bc41d8299d78500d37e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11039 19304 bytes