Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9427327893fb162…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:58:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 92d3ff5aad36ee03288dc955aacf89f8 SHA-1: 210fc4d05cec8ae7497c5f5472f4113eabd698e3 SHA-256: b9427327893fb16266f0d92970973bd0282df402ea8e8d90f7a8000abc65c7ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, likely to distribute further malware or phish users. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210613125053.pdf
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1798889518709fa5035cd62c05498387/48363163236.pdf
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608966a363014---wojafivopo.pdf
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b40e641ee3c830272393529bf08062f/77729650176.pdf
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/41518145578.pdf
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/51721479142.pdf
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8bf191b07b---34213491242.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0p4ud87sqnlqlsph468r279n9p/21938099775.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881b87709e7---42868405419.pdf
    • https://tanthuantelecom.com/upload/fck/file/nijafilovagu.pdf
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/85905234688.pdf
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/xefevijegugogizaxe.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a114fa44b0a---13608718039.pdf
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///polidalufulumipusaviju.pdf
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97843d2cacf5ed9a9243e41807c73400/vinavomapar.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3fe708446---45566857538.pdf
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a0550ed78683210bd638cac22a45e54/ginotiwalatagitudibetivu.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079122a14711---25547050917.pdf
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078842ea4c66---gosaborupefe.pdf
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/runuba.pdf
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/rerazupowube.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+your+weakness+in+resume
    • 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_off00011534.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11534 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012d46.bin
fec9574a9d2c521eba4afbceef2fbabb5a22a365f8143e7e1ecb3472a423b7ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D46 17720 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015bb9.bin
ac5b6bdb63ffd8d3e7bae64d1a37a65fc445d05e8d7971f5422ef8e193616280
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BB9 10608 bytes