Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eaa5952fa71758b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 17:00:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0e69e569dcee277114979fd41529001c SHA-1: 523e37898ca1c64357f398abf8bcc0ff88e41083 SHA-256: 9eaa5952fa71758bba7b485949785a82493600c2586b4c817e817492ae8f6572
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with common phishing and malware delivery techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/mobusepedus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.studioline.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katuvuteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citranco.com/users/files/dekiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612febb11f8dd---20158402870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60242743123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d324c21dcaa2d9d78a94df50d310c0cf/vasuwovezad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhlaurenso.org/upload/files/xudikutuxudulava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/xotopufuvazudovogufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210907144749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itena.si/uporabnik/file/jiganimofugutalimovenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drddvichitra.com/userfiles/file/42051935940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/9723596589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-francuskiego.pl/userfiles/file/lenaxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangtriasianwindow.com/uploads/image/files/63621854728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaxufadedugomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/dikepagaxemovutewoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613519efe4ce5---90892784060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vindindex.nl/images/uploads/lekazipasexogufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kamolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/202197204629128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/ziwigegonopudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobilestore.de/userfiles/file/lotumawabajamululiled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/94216148069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137316878db1---55356185777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents/files/76560650558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/24909524174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=legal+free+robuxPDF 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_off0000bd3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD3E 15848 bytes
SHA-256: 1191d4eb4b8a49d8362aed3e198caeb2cc9ddd0c0e60893b2bc0a028882055fd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE623 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3A 10224 bytes
SHA-256: b6c1d192a3dbe7158c9fba2edf39d291b1316e3c116389bd0678f811da09b9cf