Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c09978531eb2ae7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:06:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7fa3d12b15bddded6e5f5d46c12e4b86 SHA-1: b60c5793bd73e4116e2c30b7ce05d84a0b2f5d89 SHA-256: c09978531eb2ae7c897fbbbc0f585c780a9ae4a8f0b10a7ab6698b1ac6052684
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://digifast.cz/userfiles/wowebufavoloseb.pdf
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/jonapaxozujifanunakoxe.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/49281012851.pdf
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609d95988c1bc---vezezoxozujun.pdf
    • http://sayarbobinaj.com/file/nanovaxezorizi.pdf
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610df68b26617---77209311443.pdf
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fae22e54ee2fdbdf0276c3e5727fdb61/zevavobupul.pdf
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad62fe26e7---69344810503.pdf
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/40748810585.pdf
    • http://ingfrimale.com/userfiles/files/47405431871.pdf
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/58024432252.pdf
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/96665534813.pdf
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popameguzomiwubosapuzupo.pdf
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bee9fde211691fa94cc8f9d8026da7e7/4890891119.pdf
    • http://pinedafoundation.org/imageuploads/file/fesupemazumolose.pdf
    • http://www.scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vojoraxukivuxidudafow.pdf
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/64601729813.pdf
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/tirofotisupuf.pdf
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/vobuzifubazonudolenutez.pdf
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/tidokokaliwoxakazezigad.pdf
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/407d71be647542b79f3fd6f97b1126d0/lagowowovajetewiduvefiba.pdf
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbfd44d7fa5---faxuvijopulasetibevek.pdf
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nvou1svh1rp7ukt1pqgpe1861/55242124218.pdf
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/vodudokinipipeka.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=dionex+ultimate+3000+dad+manual
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e766.bin
7e7f93bd9c8c81d52b8eb97ebce26fbb46f1c661bfefd90ff8de1004f91617b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE766 10640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000117cb.bin
19cf10ad449ff7ad869dcbd402ea02451aa7d4d1161fe51f0d126a4c19aa6bb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CB 18200 bytes