Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f025299d9b38d84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 14:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5a6cc78cc515972421bca260ad68fe81 SHA-1: e0e6a4644d7ebaa270635f602be50a744b9878d7 SHA-256: 9f025299d9b38d8483b5f0035759eac8907880454bce1dbee242ec12d7ecc906
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to a variety of domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm. Several heuristics indicate that these links lead to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ctrl+l+chrome PDF link annotation
    • http://safetruck.gr/images/file/44399417980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/42897423060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/25981356037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ccee792e3---7682276274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harmonie-avion.fr/actualite/files/20075778995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/68606113665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/99003438407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://360global.ca/userfiles/file/7687201285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dwitunggaljaya.com/sitefiles/file/51029765705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/palab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396bbde72d7---barojarajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yidaig.com/uploadfile/file/20210902005934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/files/likezilasanapoduveladev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcgo.tw/uploadpic/files/67840346058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/kosikugabiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64d33bd4786b0f48469cc70e7bb8b1d1/47283527953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoya.hr/UserFiles/file/31756202817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar.com/contents/files/79065295343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/34697103210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409badb8fb5---53874910315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d34a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD34A 16512 bytes
SHA-256: c0af1c54c377050dc615c27479cc97ecc73742c954bc051216ae5d24c8bd642b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5A 10000 bytes
SHA-256: 33c2a2002ea06d2463275311a730b6ef65829fe5495bfa6c44d27d236487e05c
font_02_sfnt_off00010085.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10085 2128 bytes
SHA-256: ea0838c56c771baac3e7294113a37a869da30c0923c5234740d3ad99157bc88d
font_03_sfnt_off00010a1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1C 26232 bytes
SHA-256: 072322e0ef4d6408aa4223db5ccb8a71225cf101fb21126b490b069cb5546783
font_04_sfnt_off00014813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14813 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1