Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fe81402d7b4bb1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:14:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c035cf09194d628a94c5a4a1c5f6a628 SHA-1: 9ff1bef31fd452bc5f1bc475d74eed79a3538712 SHA-256: 9fe81402d7b4bb1d0944ba1c0e1b50afb8cda9b390a8374fcf44d45bcb0b50f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using such domains for link farms. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simple+cover+letter+sample+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/fezasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611477da6522f---givalixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-plast.ru/foto/files/1209914442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/dotuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fbff3459ca---66646076639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/niripatodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160990b4edd9a2---pejimasudejubumejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/36902357374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/nazasigegabudazowupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf3b096f3a5e9e66614b04db040a296f/xuwitejikufapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/9911111806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/12197666882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/jomipuvuziwikikebiboje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunitenazipapakedasebog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07bj2icembsflsq8riofesnfr9/dogowelalurere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1dbed46e8---97222342360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9e38028d3028d05e9df8ab310593966/titofutonavivobotufefuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.com/userfiles/file/jedorogekiton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/sozogow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a25cd83ece---72946115074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tafrhe2t9ibo5kq9mul19h7pu4/54537214162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/dinatanoxefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/46654153352.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_off0000eead.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C4 10816 bytes
SHA-256: cfc6a235e4268021ea5067e35bf7c51cb0d37ed98bee70c5eae7201094382ced
font_02_sfnt_off00011fb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB3 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 2d13b3ffee70f30a88a0999bda032a6e7411636143d325592581112dd413b999