Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9b2cb0c18f05740…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:37:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0d36a6a68d6255343fbcf733e9a8db2a SHA-1: 4c6f4d8a3908a400740a3715e7313c1c9e0dab33 SHA-256: b9b2cb0c18f05740bca09373f009c09fb206c9ceab5c4693fc2dea863b9bfae8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://jkmdc.com/aversystem.com/userfiles/file/fomivafusosutevimu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/vononumakiwijatijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffefd5df44---54177838884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/12927834332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80919a60b3a0d282043736fe791d92c5/barixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patp1ryb.ru/media/file/8359654032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pvesc.vn/uploaded/file/nofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/pererarapabitejefik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmdg.com/upfolder/e/files/20210825035538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/5915805470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/9912268974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e01eb79843---75040687091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8212a65485---5800128427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffdb56382ab---ponoxoxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4ojt63mdb71m1rrrs675qi5q2/kuzoxalawamulino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097307910501---lorolomunuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/43571288593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/99686571778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a133cc3c1f7---muxutiferasipizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ovewivugameparewodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livstyle.ro/home/livstyle/public_html/uploads/files/37966412085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/kisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a061b7574c9---zejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/47859130920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=arfken+mathematical+methods+for+physicists+solutionPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e4c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD5 17092 bytes
SHA-256: 28de24fcf6ce97959277ba44c470ed7151ec75531e1d9c1b69b39f244593570b
font_02_sfnt_off0001296a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1296A 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 6b98aa419302446edcdea1f9f7ec09f93cb4a3fd6d01c7dc8ef464f081546b77