Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f2209f30e2e962b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:58:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bd36215e228ec3027e6a8f8a7f42d302 SHA-1: f857c87a7a43f73d3911aad617f5a85f4b29e5b1 SHA-256: 9f2209f30e2e962b324dcb0a575d87c57155e1024da76521e54d1e64799bfa4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and potentially malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to redirect users to attacker-controlled infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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=how+do+you+dye+your+shield+in+minecraft
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/gowafezoluxuxixekaxe.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725b2194eef---34505242850.pdf
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/77045775847.pdf
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/zofevadimijovi.pdf
    • http://emusicmarket.com/upfile/board/files/12810246347.pdf
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12d91ce37678b4f2595e67b8cf938382/wowukuviguwenel.pdf
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16c5c5a2569691621b90a8b8739bb73b/37025239178.pdf
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/jasibase.pdf
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/95762476935.pdf
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/20326187950.pdf
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/23712351940.pdf
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06a3080a3ba0f097c86c8cff7002d9aa/21426637380.pdf
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jmavku4d5ncc9m9pa8jcesspm/90969120026.pdf
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c19c90759---17389491346.pdf
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b39055d6a2c7a0f00f3b2226b2c2d368/jigajazudototidiriza.pdf
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h76rgg3en3lqgatrndo2n3g03/50320257173.pdf
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/nekabu.pdf
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c2fd7b5ff---98216339048.pdf
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6dd97164d5831f387720009fc00a12b/wolofolosarexarida.pdf
    • https://hsse.cl/files/xekarubeji.pdf
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/082ecc478ea6df290419cf4c5f933be8/ginunivenalifilopef.pdf
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941f264bc21---46300500205.pdf
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03f12eb156---51073048024.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_off000117ad.bin
de4a6a1fd0c77a0434657f5c1633b71acff8d386d501d67586eb22987322a053
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117AD 18232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000147fd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147FD 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016014.bin
537da0a72b6939f91eee51b64495de2c03b4df74aaf35d4a815513d5a095b7cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16014 11032 bytes