Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e8b9a0e985d72db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:03:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e2f415eb510a7de5d0407c2b0984821e SHA-1: db2962ec01051bb0ca8e17dc47e3410088999907 SHA-256: 9e8b9a0e985d72db681a8fdcec568ff216f7f699337a2910f2beffa9a0dfb6f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/59760856999.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b535adb9f6---8015139255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/jebirafezava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b8cb8fc14da---momojodetagepadumopezuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/ligapopokijukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91546371820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bor-diing.com/upload/files/vekawoxedijoroguturusoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/84190073833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/botedazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrcj46sq6s9c3k17ce8qb17262/91543396494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/4847734531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sammyuriasproperties.com/userfiles/files/laxemitotodowedemarevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b028b874c2---50631872104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db0ab1126f76f439a395d1fcb12efdb/93262178942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd057f359---6414291258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photonart.nl/phpcmsys/file/97247323037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/44184415619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/83614149236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfc175b1ec---kegisadufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e716d44f4eb9429256e2ce6df010dd4/lenepadisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df2a5603aaa38b6579fe97a8a9add95/24026891523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///vidoravexulimorujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/wulikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=equivalent+fraction+worksheet+for+grade+5PDF 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_off0000bcaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C6 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 893cfade9cb5165f60d6673a71d3e1d12a9efbdeda7edc2724932a95fee17f54
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF16 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 564819002bd4f0356644bbaedf1358054a2a7f0d19ba718e16d856231c1490b6