Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eec0930138d5e8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 16:18:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ecfd9fda1f027330db7eb54cce29c55f SHA-1: a1599330ccfe571a89d6ec3ac8f858c165ec0b36 SHA-256: 9eec0930138d5e8f1028d51b6b5a42d6092613dae145a2099295503758265366
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://rancholasmonturaspremios.com/campannas/file/lowafuxiwupadeku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349c613d290---kexekolatasuvolijajabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75002787334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralcomservis.ru/crn_fls/crn_files/gazutibuladipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietdubai.com/userfiles/file/powolazinetoxosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shceping.com/upFile/photos/2021-9/file/50868961647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161310d1153fb7---40908424417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/36991763282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chilegastronomia.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/35813482537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/jafudakuwipotinomolokijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/fozirebavokafedupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/39657542178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/56323572587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304606e853d---47952064191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhminhquang.com/upload/files/36872354794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jyapa.com/jhuoyue/uploadfiles/54436632127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/3916995707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healingtown.org/userData/board/file/56790596045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fluffy-chins.com/images/file/97263262750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/rifaxovofagimajinesuwidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://genarchi.com/data/temp/file/rololavekukemezatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.puskinas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36370634185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snabsz.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomikesusilonesodawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=overcoming+retroactive+jealousy+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000d070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD070 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE887 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 5b59f50bf6928d27112a4e8ac053710c5417f746df6a092888ae3980c3be3b03
font_02_sfnt_off00010339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10339 16436 bytes
SHA-256: 0e7cc8e2cbb50b77c698d09e71dc79fda4d1b1937e4778f8f12221437ec473fc