Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd91ce9c0620be13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:51:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 22e3e62ae84dfbfede034406ebc9ef5f SHA-1: 986dd1df9198a533ef2366c4ac3faec77e1905f6 SHA-256: bd91ce9c0620be1354e16455657311239458c8398de7b1e862fdcffcc27510b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, designed to lure users into clicking through. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and a high ML score indicates a deliberate attempt to direct users to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/55468243179.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pradakshinam.com/fck_uploads/file/toweterusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/92630361435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a22bd44fee96e053628831c602e90ab/94785685944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/25748511630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/30093224965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74294011851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiab.net/userData/board/file/80082238024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909064357335019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongshengchem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regumademijorelaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowballet.ru/userfiles/file/wawabugupiwufelaliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangwontaxi.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210921_FAE0303C0A011CCC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcab25e3b0---xujewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b284194cabcaf2cc8c86a5433d219b26/dumugitibigisonadixepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumahbaruku.com/contents/files/pesifuvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmaramures.ro/userfiles/file/sapip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanoomhoteli.com/basefile/khanoomhotelicom/files/62367615172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volareinmongolfiera.it/userfiles/files/37401539502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriturismoilcolle.org/userfiles/file/47256676113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-liberec.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagurapotojabolazigib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44963125199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/19009530865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/79364407900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonghuichem.com/upload/files/36207048318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/57661772063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/70146027147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137579d001f6---zukotikanajatama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=good+play+apkPDF 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_off0000d815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD815 9936 bytes
SHA-256: 206ef5b0e5d8e20c63c930b8b5c66ba38d144a91ed996b16d861e4cf4924adf7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001063c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063C 18260 bytes
SHA-256: af46f1c7f99dea6e20efde931b55d04d25bc1789dc0f1ed9c9bc36103211610b