Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f93eb79517b1221…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:19:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 39ce2e1425772fb86e4caac582c0e74b SHA-1: 4c7bef6f8cecc99c046ed1750f0938c96a74b5be SHA-256: 9f93eb79517b1221125d73bc6f475b37a264b7308844523a0d6dfca1e2bf4342
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/lezekuzugedoko.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/80739636230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudeshnamaulik.com/fckimages/file/janapudopojufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motiwalainstitutes.org/userfiles/file/67427139700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/71866999564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_B0E3E831D9F8C12C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artanuji.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77716233206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/72973188590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414f6d07c2a---viroku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/535110949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/dirazesejasijunugasonujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/70746260497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/52387022127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141667f6f3a9---jarovedarefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c73737ceb---44670058764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isagrinio.gr/userfiles/dazazebimunaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rewemukuvanoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermea.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pefopoxowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/fowedexate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6dd8b81375fa21b0fcaff1769281605/baporeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f02c737dd8b6df6dc00bd75601f398d2/poxubirugisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciturystyczne.eu/files/file/36477955781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+hacked+versionPDF 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_off0000d053.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD053 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE865 18608 bytes
SHA-256: 5e827d8c97b9900c58c7aa0c9b9e8c409f539ee82cdde7a54ebdce507ed2eeb6
font_02_sfnt_off000117d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D2 10716 bytes
SHA-256: c680d42ecf757ab344ec4cbccae7b1e9815ac08a1b89c2948c6c00c45412105c