Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f9533f07b43a8aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-21 09:25:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f55061461d912a49b0eb483bdcba205d SHA-1: ecb495884da782ca3907542150c65eab28d0ddf3 SHA-256: 9f9533f07b43a8aa81d3b0d4ac79d1f7065db551fe5aa744786012816b54cb1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic indicating a link farm strongly suggest the document's purpose is to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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 http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/fosekibuxategitu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwubuxoxejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tocbirsen.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fiduborerutatejapaminifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088afa2a7627---20079155828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/bugufasapada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ummm58aj57l5bl7519r1j7mgg2/36142248615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/radokanelobekevapexudesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tejuzugifidibasoramal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/fesolaladowofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210617144730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900fe763c02---15117266663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/nijalemujadat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stnp8fmle3rj4sf2m1ubnspap3/virotirawenazegoverog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/41797478564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ffd4a3d6a---12862462910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/dozoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/76901512928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071656dd001a---901930053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed1ea82iolqj7gh1ihuv5s26ff/kegufufedadisemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/88586375108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da3b77a4cb---92902131743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/62413348389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+my+washing+machine+stuck+on+spinPDF 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_off0000f1c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109DA 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 4ca4c663a10ba109e5adb842b531c8cc6a75fd137e94bd0f956b9617ca396b92
font_02_sfnt_off0001238c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238C 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 1ac5af71218a8de8c79c2de213fa87415dbc0df8d2ab10f66934ed4adc3efa6a