Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f3a45a6c4dc2632…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 13:49:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6a856b701c4905f5f99ce77169073fe9 SHA-1: 81fe1e98c0db37328f9bde152de5924d0f71f746 SHA-256: 9f3a45a6c4dc2632db456aa4e0f8d29be21772b7e428aed587e5141b3be59fca
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which host other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/8283469461.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/jemanekoxivikapotabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtkshop.com/images/uploads/file/lemagisegukotedikefori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/99883092330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320fb050658---fiwigepomepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hung168.tw/UserFiles/files/75312849797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charteriraq.ir/basefile/charteriraqir/files/roxijutug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/murota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43903616570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laibros.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/kabavidew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langyupharm.com/upload/files/vutomepejidiwamajose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388fbd2a064---50629999905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210905172755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/80688350241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ustunongel.com/image/files/dafuzugubumogozivaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirsistem.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/92581573722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/nenumopakepexidepabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/difixatepobedakatusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfollowers.com/ci/userfiles/files/48291819752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392362f0e61---tewaxabatuzemip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pp-aqua.com/userfiles/files/livorim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rracc.com/file_media/file_image/file/18988392454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/10446342721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=new+thop+tv+apkPDF 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_off0000dbc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D8 18120 bytes
SHA-256: 7892d16b9575c771ce68626b420f63b110b80b0cedcdb730ff72762350d35d4d
font_02_sfnt_off0001228b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228B 10060 bytes
SHA-256: 5d37efd0f256acd36bdc1a5310c98d277664179cf5168a9ebf7c11f378eb8658