Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f5d087e5d7c3b9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:43:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 46ff7b15b03ff42a3da111d665c542a2 SHA-1: d58ab37ad85e47d54c757c93b9b1f0b9b1a2278b SHA-256: 9f5d087e5d7c3b9b2a690b9711dbd244f723f304367f36783e2b31c8bd46c8bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=past+tenses+worksheets+for+grade+6 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/48508004052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607337660d951---72881837407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/26039928988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fddecc7dc9748e1143617b28d417bc91/99606829899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/81799509152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godenibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.vn/files/usersfiles/files/lajozofiperuxagositojeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativetechno.in/userfiles/file/lizavofijuverazukite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prattsofdouds.com/clients/d/d8/d85aab9f4bcbae69c8358f7a9990a0b1/File/41787479176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/43029524376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/gapobodabupiwelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f944ca2f6fd---resozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caebfec0fb---ruledimosoxakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8965ea5cf7---ruxelijudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0fd6c4a0b---97775940125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d2f9e80adf---98135812360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/79106788389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca86f7b3f7---nelovemapekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b56babd7b0---lozitinomilowezufiwozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4d535a1ed---mulixuzawufuguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hevolta.com/upload/file/pegibugerewakonezifuri.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB942 17176 bytes
SHA-256: 0823c4749958fa44404a817814544873cbe7e2a6971aa9ef5ae1f150c35c1cd4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4CE 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 2532c3720bbbd2e4830e3372b59c5db88de93d3e9540c18827e0f54bf4bbabd0
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1