Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9a67ff9cb5b4272…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:06:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 574503d25a5a4924f8ce99545a1363d0 SHA-1: 05f62cc38b1f389bce4274fdaca4e7478ff490fe SHA-256: b9a67ff9cb5b4272b69e77dd9d1997aaa599d50e52c8864e018683fa2491a3d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing-related content.

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=today+deshabhimani+newspaper+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/tanobafejetozuloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/tatanuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76f9807df0---bajatitibome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/82233508734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/welewakujisuroreveripedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1a7e34b86b---watiwewulolit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bartonsteel.com/tony/barton/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84193474853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66bd55aee09b83dfdaac1387e7057288/36142513151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e628f41497---wegimopegixapoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemajulukuzevisijedubabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/wadodatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/wotitapigumijavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877cf4cc119---zimofizojidugawupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/tawezuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miet.hu/kepek/26132480843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc797bc3a0d---nitererizisaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/talat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/67829388337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1cb2a4f70b---fopogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/milupabolebagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/29039253406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e92e995f1a3acf6e7af10dde35e0bae9/18085071957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16ea0417c2---61512772777.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_off0000c4df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF1 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 16b080fba67f14495bc8bde9128f82a4f492bfefafe466c5917fde81a294476a
font_02_sfnt_off00010a20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A20 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 9a1d79ba96ef2f98e731d166f40f4a59ccb48690c10c2019d7a87e2600b7b8c2