Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9edec3faa714e35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-10-03 02:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9694721f52faffb847da7a93bea93408 SHA-1: 51a5d4e9e44a9c1fee2b3e70861bed966fbd3484 SHA-256: b9edec3faa714e35de432c9e07b5e884dbdd0bc230fe32971758bfed7370650d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Numerous heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=proper+noun+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90251688449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kemeworasodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eprobatdz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98611606267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.zagi.hr/files/tavatiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villamishkan.com/310renonew/front/images/files/garexaziwapumirirusizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ls12368.com/userfiles/file/rutokurifekojoveden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msmzizkov.cz/data/dokumenty/riluluwaxupadimodadomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purmoradiatoriai.lt/images/files/68477767391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9761044581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4831b2516---vekuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/nuxasekabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcentral.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/59390902364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/bijiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pluset.com/userfiles/8322887172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dsjrmo58puhpov6bvpfu3t3pnb/6711667487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/wefuxadibatesawosanal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/55713439643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingswaytyres.com/project/kingsway/uploads/file/50736431914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/savaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/24519008666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c31e7ee979---43426173714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nissan-utilitaires-melun.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/furasipezemixuzex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/doveguvuzejofekijene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://around-sicily.net/userfiles/file/nawuvukix.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_off0000b03b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB03B 10672 bytes
SHA-256: d9b7c8f9550511ce67b2eeb82c8aeb3032576c317c45278e81fd9d33c99468da
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8A6 16512 bytes
SHA-256: 42764d8f2b8fd2a1f5093a215bbe06ae8b7b034a3f22885ac9bd1a07e6c79e12
font_02_sfnt_off0000f249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF249 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1