Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e9ed50c19adcd34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:11:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: da77893e618173bd559939851d797958 SHA-1: 7465c59f95568070eee0c8f32fd8fff60c6a95e9 SHA-256: 9e9ed50c19adcd3439ce1759b9acaa277dd9e108219dc31a9ea0de2be37435e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+studio+open+pdf
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/fisosewamewaviziram.pdf
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36558229208.pdf
    • http://3e3i.com/UserFiles/file///sumefazumikubudokibolivof.pdf
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/lubifununukukutoloju.pdf
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzaba.pdf
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hc6q220gdodtm6n7ghctnrr5nh/tubowepavitevej.pdf
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/14603021544.pdf
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/80945346355.pdf
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/84394257995.pdf
    • http://xn--4k0b43gkwo4gn.com/upload/editor/file/zejopuwuronunizazozewan.pdf
    • http://dj-maily.com/uploads/pages/files/67349602875.pdf
    • http://azinsaghf.com/cache/fck_files/file/mazexomejuvotanukize.pdf
    • https://softwebstar.com/shop/userfiles/file/87006043290.pdf
    • http://hijoin.hu/editor_up/rekalixiseridozepaj.pdf
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/44500485943.pdf
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/takixebaminape.pdf
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aebc11f44b243831a0605f57bb874af/wamufiwazirizodi.pdf
    • https://martabaktelor.com/contents/files/37144206595.pdf
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcb34e48f3---niguji.pdf
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/19652208580.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f338b5b3eb7dc9e81324430e77ad33c1/20867669530.pdf
    • https://5udua.com/contents/files/mabajedukagezetasapefakib.pdf
    • http://musicandyouapp.com/webupload/editorimg/files/26912054804.pdf
    • 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_off0000e793.bin
60ab8fb457a3483fe16d6796e25f23309f96658ef687d4cae636216a8d799026
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE793 19192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a81.bin
6870f149b61b67be0a132c9b86463fec2700a7b183bff750eb0f3c28b0691d9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A81 10364 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013212.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13212 16792 bytes