Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e9ccc5c7d24778a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 14:32:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 74c616ed4b3eb96504d149fa73ba8c76 SHA-1: 4cbb662abdd17ca82b9b3bdaef97a631b8ca8aab SHA-256: 9e9ccc5c7d24778ad0846ab25544c8c180a37bd8b189af15a740aef990af44e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, likely a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://vibrobeton.by/pics/files/41149948492.pdf
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11iiocpcveb8kh5v089q6m2rru/67985409682.pdf
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_D2B4311F714FF089.pdf
    • http://diskacme.dk/images/upload/file/nepikigomepegijoxumi.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f66648bb4b---5392647924.pdf
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/88795615345.pdf
    • http://csigikes.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/fagiwefa.pdf
    • http://zlzljc.com/uploadfile/file///2021090205541520.pdf
    • https://bdata.vn/upload/files/juxemiguwimozezumosipapaf.pdf
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/34858502539.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d3d6bc46b8---96412835932.pdf
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/pifaxirivitalaxolodi.pdf
    • http://pro-elec.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovarapunimatedewabit.pdf
    • http://chothuethietbi.info/img/files/38389292992.pdf
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ludaxuwiberugutovo.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613568be96131---zukutufef.pdf
    • http://hk-bbc.com/upload/file/divajinibazogox.pdf
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia/files/zulizawukamuz.pdf
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/jenavedajepukipifogosomul.pdf
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/85039140869.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd67cd728c---80138734711.pdf
    • http://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/vulen.pdf
    • https://slotpt2.com/contents/files/vawaraxewatunobamoniroliz.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=fxguru+apk+all+effects+unlocked
    • 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_off0000c5e2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5E2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddf4.bin
e6f6670074101125a0f4e7e8b70def672dee0ea54d8a46a410206f20ab2ba585
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDF4 16656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000108ee.bin
61cfec65aa2ebf2847c792e1ad59b50c5a9f5abab836e1fb3f275b39636ff7f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108EE 10972 bytes