Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9584abd7e3d6219…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 17:14:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b94befc58f7dd46af13786ae20129694 SHA-1: d5e6f36153cc47311c007ba3fed498bd46ec6931 SHA-256: b9584abd7e3d621995398fa6488471a10221d09c2fb14ebe6aa2288615778e96
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 uploads, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=swiftkey+apk+mod
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezusulobevuminox.pdf
    • http://fuhua.tumujike.com/assets/upload/files/202109071448026759.pdf
    • http://gzpropellers.com/uploadfile/files/direfodekujafe.pdf
    • http://mkconline.com/landmark/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96168762368.pdf
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/22355431241.pdf
    • https://interference.ajoda.eu/userfiles/files/gubonunet.pdf
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/fusibajupekumadelizipap.pdf
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/13843488931.pdf
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021091419223696.pdf
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63577925498.pdf
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pti2alh77rsoveuq1raj8fo8kl/zinogesupalujatinu.pdf
    • https://ywint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631752147.pdf
    • https://beldapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/24370498289.pdf
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52007889928.pdf
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/gozibimoror.pdf
    • http://victoryelectricalsupply.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28663445906.pdf
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7a5817649---12802128595.pdf
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/datokoraxe.pdf
    • http://hotel-gerard-dalsace.com/upload/document/gopivug.pdf
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/nazemomaramajotujovunuk.pdf
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401bfd84ed9---13003931009.pdf
    • http://runwellconsulting.eu/file/file/rafagipenowafa.pdf
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-15/20210915170034616742.pdf
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sixatojuko.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_off0000ccdc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCDC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4ee.bin
d01b4daa2112e02132997b649904e92920a1d617a3e83b7c34231840b09b8e6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4EE 18012 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011376.bin
c7e6ec71f130a629ee1c9bb1c31bbf70a5157a2e49ee22dc864f081a85306fc0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11376 10608 bytes