Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9f7678529e122db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 08:16:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 616f4773365aec1b640aff6894b49804 SHA-1: ba92b0d96f47120ed9cb553170d4c65639ce5358 SHA-256: b9f7678529e122db6e1daeccb400777b7c96ef00edfa900c534c697a574422ea
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute links to further malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://gsacademy.ge/uploads/files/1529807964.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/611693184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridobuzizaxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/84475409472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/55271678190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioscapindandrea.it/userfiles/files/xaterod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1304345035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dodexeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galaxyjewel.cn/uploadfile/files/53304271462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.piramideidiomas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dukimina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ffa3eb860---81321319817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eab5e461f6---9135113182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoverservice.be/gallery/file/fizikibabozejimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/85065617940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trade.inter-ural.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1393389173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/93237925362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nelifopavituforuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85879358116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togugekatuzofilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/14227429521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariconium.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62181120133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljsmelt.com/upload/files/23137256004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dc50d6de3f09ba9dea96a27acbd3069/wuraronivewosuzufedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/96495307332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=macbeth+oxford+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000c94b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94B 10736 bytes
SHA-256: dee969901001625f3c2f151c0e244fa463d38fe530e07f956e9bdf77541d10ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CB 17236 bytes
SHA-256: aaf0f41d54b41abcbba0895e59bb9fa4d62d1c986fd520f0d5084f2f8105d76a