Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9e6cd8642b12e38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:57:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8ab8b108a4d7a45bd82d4e8fe062a965 SHA-1: 3d876915517843604d8cea3e7b251a108dcb0367 SHA-256: b9e6cd8642b12e3877ca8d8ad68ba688e779335258dc919682db7434690563c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+block+all+sms+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://mrcubezpieczenia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/61758237235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilonabikajabesusasenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ailizia.com/userfiles/3581436317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoservice.cz/upload/file/dojukili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/quvejoslkt5aioh2c9lt9af9i1/tegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjg.hu/images/file/jufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocastigli.eu/userfiles/files/bunepibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/gifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzhrjd.com/images/uploadfile/files/dekopabikoxiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegym.com/uploads/files/202109010837582123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilocom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3815714066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e1ac774ff6---36526242725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/jerexonivorusiwugaguwudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchen.ru/d/files/9166729297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gammatradings.com/userfiles/file/67977500708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/052d30f57ad331b7a6bdbe34906de74e/kuxazigelemamovozoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/500eb72f78529c4f27dc327df4be1137/muzobelota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egf.tw/test2/images/file/264074754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fiqa735be48e.com/upload/files/govijawavigarege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hk-delight.com/UploadFiles/file/raxodojogekaduji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31249888617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/71688723840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huarui-bio.com/upload/files/31803721534.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_off0000dfa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA1 18800 bytes
SHA-256: 5c1fff94b256295bc35c36ba5240b4ea8d7078f875ab1913038e711caa826b27
font_01_sfnt_off00011017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11017 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001282e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1282E 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 30a681d2e8dfabf166c617db4dcb3d9b6b808756022dbed4e3d92d65360b900b