Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e98a27c92fdaa71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-28 17:34:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 90673f2ce438c01ab4058ef1d7a30384 SHA-1: d5c9f0c2de7a7aeaa67f3f44368206c35ca8e65e SHA-256: 9e98a27c92fdaa71251886c457a27866b2f61bc840740dce02770c99be3090d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous unknown PDF files hosted on various domains, several of which are identified as potentially compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/tusizenogav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ptichile.cl/userfiles/file/64444155956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owop.challengersports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/timodirokipabokejapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/zowedofixafesajenofixobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/60816318399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/ridularenipiselagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161514583eaa24---durosuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/59716995877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbconsulting112.ca/userfiles/files/puditekadekijedowiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--38-mlcqjbufcz6h.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/nemusesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/xabitofilekuxupomorabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alteredcompta.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tebezepakipojumajifere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studyhalltracker.com/files/file/gewuwatajusipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/30922639581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/96386257558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cb1f8000c0---3640185464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lyonsinn.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/radofojosulubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents/files/xamevobagupovelazosapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/mipomulezepotawujal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dasunutoluxuzudiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkconline.com/landmark/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jibebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146356733ac7---36945395303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/77876327132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domkomplekt34.ru/attachments/file/72080243090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=android+block+textPDF 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_off0000b14f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB14F 15572 bytes
SHA-256: 3e63ae121e299b68e614bc00f92a3e2ee5f2387ad92262d3a12ca23d1d8b322f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD898 10348 bytes
SHA-256: e72d860a1bb6aabb61ede808b8fc821c7f5632130a765b60f7f53975cb54f883
font_02_sfnt_off0000f010.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF010 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1