Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9c2f532df3b0a71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 15:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e2d134a28da2db955b21a8d75cff1769 SHA-1: 7912edd5e0dbaa3d564cc005a7fb3489e2244c1e SHA-256: b9c2f532df3b0a713d91e1bc24c5df521334abc5aa3294bd48bd10cd697709e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic confirm the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cheat+code+for+cooking+fever PDF link annotation
    • http://homeopathyhk.com/files/bamepidoxorilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmtshipping.com/attachment/file/70056715644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6db5985503f4743a046ce5310e54f379/ritejeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/milesuporonite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141902e0e369---49599888350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f224d38aa3d7b844744e143d6af6072/kikinunuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613950b1f22a9---19653728657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/22129185730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/kavofoxedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kechengchem.com/upload/files/82161657663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/dokidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.miotsukushi.or.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64984515629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratorioshamalab.com/userfiles/file/peref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muabannhagiare.net/images/uploads/files/solenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.seblocation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sccsfz.org/upload/2021-09/vobow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/9372978087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insinkerator.us/images/uploaded/file/13508349466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2m-m.eu/userfiles/files/21362461849.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_off0000f4f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F7 18656 bytes
SHA-256: d86e3e05f93e55cdf0b266def4f2d44f0b95822bae3c01e73510f29a992fa75b
font_01_sfnt_off000124d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ce7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CE7 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 1ab81fc120bd8baea6f9e52c44581336c91c2224251616de50ec75038f9caa82