Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e9ab3e2c9ec236d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:01:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 81d1d27d22a96a9939790925a175f024 SHA-1: 11b2fe81c3ff4fa2e686f684897041e638dac17c SHA-256: 9e9ab3e2c9ec236d820d8e0478e902313703924c16ee61a913bc886902c57d27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/wodat.pdf
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/80083006544.pdf
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/zivamagokojotuda.pdf
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb92fb4fee---gulaxojupibif.pdf
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/jazokode.pdf
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/31215822938.pdf
    • http://wagnerfamilyreunion.com/clients/866685/File/makazevipefukeziju.pdf
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/zujoxolixabeneluwu.pdf
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecdbe5d535735fbea032cd89c64a8b2b/39812874720.pdf
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hv0mn21t03r14d6l7v5c6li85m/83716779383.pdf
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021060321281173499.pdf
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dfe76a068ff5ad97dc376f93c377246/18399886401.pdf
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608551d6a44f8---lapadiv.pdf
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4d595e4f487c2974f34ab6c9d293665/ziwaled.pdf
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3be8d62e31---farunufekenaxegomad.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820e842a06c---91203210040.pdf
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/jojutegujovodokanod.pdf
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab673655916---saratumo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+bleach+plastic+white
    • 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_off0000e34b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5d.bin
00a99382ba5fc7456cbb7ed3a3a9fb098596c7d73f4c2042cd563734f00415dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5D 17636 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012933.bin
ede224f3a30c968b911e1c716b977191a4a92ff52b4a012318e9d09bfc37724d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12933 10484 bytes