Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f320e1db112f0ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 11:04:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 207af8e5f9bc59d1d3076e2c9817f133 SHA-1: 4a47b853e00a75647590f4e947eac804ccb30b15 SHA-256: 9f320e1db112f0ecc602eef5c5208392e6f1e2b2f6562ddc598c982d3eca2abe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites, likely to facilitate the download of further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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 http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/gobufomivirorujaxowepu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://makeyourpartnermelt.com/userfiles/file/lutumevukepibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613986d33fc3d---28024749660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd3d79ee2880931211b6c369798667b/30391004726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92828068684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonzagafood.com/userfiles/files/67392761822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/zobetedazejuxozipenizaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladymamashop.com/uploads/files/202109051612339431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd665ac29d---weditokomemuwiwagonemopex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergeybazarov.ru/file/xifapote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/vudugufixonexulopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tunotizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613194f917881---dotokida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/34700604322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/rumugebonowabigerumererel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenkatsu.dk/files/pijoxajovugadenisiroduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doingthing.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/latilogagajenosapamafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/38274289643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/39586362707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklepbonus.eu/userfiles/file/18283281451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01456ec127f4cfcb166637e4bb58c514/98907959481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305eebee2f7---89348342594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/78723770735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shian-jin.com/UserFiles/files/ganisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satnamunicipalcorporation.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86124056408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613425725fce3---36636708899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=download+emulator+3ds+androidPDF 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_off0000b6d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6D9 14464 bytes
SHA-256: fd4bac85a1e197a69369ffb069fa9360243f1b476e578e7a1f77eaae17e967ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000dae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FC 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 789ae68854e7ed65e95d5dfe848e2a74b174dde123a82464268dceaada585523