Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e73f996f53c9b94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-18 07:20:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ce0f3928c54aaf42a002da8e69656fc8 SHA-1: 93549d812ddf80668384273a894cf6a3c4038caa SHA-256: 9e73f996f53c9b94238b2b34d5bd3bf133b5f194fadf7b0048a1932fcb9e469c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of raw IP address links and compromised WordPress uploads indicates a high likelihood of phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.nachtruhe.info/up/files/jukunuvelugisakek.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/36385185165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/kaboxegulovifevoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b4bd47919ee0ab6fe4afa227d50f219/veruroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/xuzokedegubukefov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210701_134339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-liberec.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86292009304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef219276c783b8f6f8743dc25130e5c0/wosalubopedamadigifafijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/zekid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/xedanagodajefati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62644eca36---69567526381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3nc9hjfsn7phhs59o6s8un1u5/rikevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61645afc0d72b1a3cd025f42cc48d80c/fagizomudekonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b3bf156e5d1bb890f40ef1ba73d0aef/7743506626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffae39793f---958412330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/gexelopufevemowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beef8eb06026d9956195895409e0fff9/51423863217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/ximawepowekibupefituve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/kizidewapeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607140fe3074f---63053469014.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/wiwuvata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/kusifizomezujudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=toad+in+the+hole+foodPDF 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_off0000fd33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD33 17620 bytes
SHA-256: bae87bfca437554a8303317503a20539d48444eeee177e995197221419616ea1
font_01_sfnt_off00012b64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001437b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1437B 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 3a54b020aa3e1d6ce1672f09a6b1666305c0f1ec97c04750aa1677da954046f6

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