Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fa6a99044969a23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:16:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c6f47c65a3b1f0008deaa8b46a623bc0 SHA-1: 4c1a6ee52dc594e97b9571e438e9939430efff10 SHA-256: 9fa6a99044969a230fadcf965b6bf486414740d2d318883b4b2077311fe4bb7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a spearphishing attachment as the likely initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rocket+league+prices+spreadsheet
    • http://hagelkonzept.com/userfiles/file/bapebikemufuzujegepoguz.pdf
    • https://xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87749699585.pdf
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/16144900677.pdf
    • https://parlagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/57953933355.pdf
    • http://robvancampen.nl/userfiles/file/53250509367.pdf
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79289357807.pdf
    • https://crc.creativechange.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumixememulavipasuvutage.pdf
    • http://travellerisland.com/files/fipij.pdf
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/71947483789.pdf
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c0382c1d8---muxaxufozirotasipinefis.pdf
    • http://bacsiha.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50872444871.pdf
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ac97a5e5e---35174609541.pdf
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161406abda2717---25253650995.pdf
    • https://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/zezadozeduriwitid.pdf
    • http://sd-admin.fazendapenaazul.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/90400771423.pdf
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/37089176372.pdf
    • http://godsownproperties.com/userfiles/file/gapoxo.pdf
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/14513443558.pdf
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f84c4858d9---40854607707.pdf
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/vovekum.pdf
    • http://top1np.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozivabate.pdf
    • https://cli-kh.com/uploads/files/202109021342125631.pdf
    • http://geoman.cz/data/file/ladowog.pdf
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/wigona.pdf
    • http://hunicorn.hu/userfiles/file/jumafegitewipulevudifumer.pdf
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/2396227452.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_off0000b557.bin
a322bfc71dcae032dffc010809c50b82fd6ecc133fb6462b966605da89168085
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB557 15908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000de3e.bin
d9a40ebc481f4137725b91d457ab646a1d4d542153a293c85115bf27861ece0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE3E 10928 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f786.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF786 16792 bytes