Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f59bb9c6edce3f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-29 00:47:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5568d2096bdc032c755a09a71c3e8278 SHA-1: 04acd3b4300dbdc48c91733d251de68f356fd3fc SHA-256: 9f59bb9c6edce3f0c648d563f9d69bc95dcc2090872e32fa1b77ea04dc5ff8d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+android+training+in+ahmedabad
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347a119d927---jimumatejifiwuferu.pdf
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210929050644.pdf
    • http://vietdubai.com/userfiles/file/1373549471.pdf
    • http://starma.pl/files/file/rikuzumabakumufabesazola.pdf
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b2ed877b45---6933096059.pdf
    • http://muabannhagiare.net/images/uploads/files/99600331608.pdf
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa396b22c8782ddf71288cf2615596d9/basidokusixejubukomuze.pdf
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210928140245_1318128634.pdf
    • http://zenhowell.com/upload/file/56295753919.pdf
    • https://biodez.lt/i/File/74424038604.pdf
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/kizukadufajona.pdf
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/82007241894.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9c4e930ef3e795a12c01396b6a07627/jozakodufigoxegeraketitat.pdf
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gre2sl139ur3amsot3nsghh43/7095103200.pdf
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109261423185837.pdf
    • http://www.slappedtogether.com/editoruploadfiles/file/muselikajeduneziranesamoz.pdf
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/276b3e7567a7fffa77441fa52be22dea/30461890269.pdf
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/vutijomimif.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372c13eca74---fegixakolizawibojif.pdf
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/dovuwezidig.pdf
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210928_9391F404DB2DC2AF.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a4d9f464fd---xesakixexafovepurel.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_off0000b13d.bin
c4ea2a17406273c8151d1daf713b218cd0a21be2ba0a0b321aaa97bee2f3a2b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB13D 10596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8ec.bin
d57a858ae58d1dd4581785bd312507e1709e7c0fef0a6a771e936c1731991e49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8EC 15060 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef02.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF02 16792 bytes