Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f6a5826fb792bfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 19:47:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c2db9e9be8377b44527d30e1030a2421 SHA-1: af76f93403149c06e8faf02498355829ec0a1b06 SHA-256: 9f6a5826fb792bfb7a5bb6a8dfbdce5c9d768e2c4801b6b35a694426f3092b08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://ecpa.fr/uploaded/file/wotopudewixajejupononik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/wobaxevifedulazusitixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/2009420510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budgetparking.ca/admin/uploads/file/gatomevolopamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwaretesting.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210907232426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134dcdad78c4---19759506249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/16358895314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/saxusoletosulira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/mesadoselugapediwebatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starfishdowney.com/uploads/files/bubalubibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/batotijesibidepumaxuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613193bf5e810---fofuminoziketud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testpensija.bankai.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3760441683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-pharma.net/data/files/nejolegobizojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/98055200203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/69772767529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usairsprings.com/userfiles/file/92522306208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210908/1443266979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprojectmanagement.guru/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ebd7e7381c---dixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4522419992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/73886970192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41071587296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-housing.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45841505468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/lexiwotugesofuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happen.webasl.com/userfiles/file/59932352927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=1st+person+shooter+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_off0000e065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE065 17252 bytes
SHA-256: f573bb93eff083dae17f481248ecdb18261d54baa66df0ed2320f1212912decc
font_01_sfnt_off00010d24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D24 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 203223c0f8e45f54a1d4bb781ef763e93685d39f90fe6f6aee43654588d45e47
font_02_sfnt_off0001249e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1