Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c09b09c64f670e27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:47:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f48fc7fe3b97a1ffc8bde8e5748044e6 SHA-1: 981750b0403837c16a8aee3081801510a744580a SHA-256: c09b09c64f670e27a32f9c426a5274d65a85424c2d027a0ed8b8c290c71da200
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and potentially disposable hosting. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these external sites, which are likely used for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=do+abyssinian+cats+shed PDF link annotation
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec464e55d9---zimifijobokinulubuwopikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/motativosapowobini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/nogaperegetamegatinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978067bef1a0edae7d648be130c8ab6c/5117320145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/5311425049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/zufetoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f57ba05b9---33816249098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ba4bdc16c1d482a693715f4041c3b7f/nuwezebiwepeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf27196e110---bijajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a78b2315e0233394cf3653068c5eea/pebijelexigiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/bulifafunegopadekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b5a60b4215c2c1d84de8deb0a50a6a9/91763127600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-property.pl/userfiles/file/lajuxerudotisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/32023190226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akv7gdo3ogv84e9p61fjjigm4i/66974551575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95ece7d72862b59efa23a41ee4e23fa6/15163409602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a4dfa7d5b---sapovomam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c36336607---58373154839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/doropesedumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahispesinde.com/gnc/veri/_files/22287072594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af234e7682f---punudixefigufogurofar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5221aa373599c91578d8c4070a2891e/buwugirikakazululo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kumh9jpnq5rcgmricojb2ou55g/jigaduxenufikifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63056d7f137fbaf176536635f5ec0ec9/wuniwukarawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehl1fpvuc45ikkfk22ok8c1k16/18226623913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff53f4da2d---fotitaridevofada.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_off000100c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C1 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 37353e877b57af717b36ac240b20ced1a6cf9a62d15454de18209e758e480aa0
font_01_sfnt_off00012e00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E00 10576 bytes
SHA-256: b900479ef88176d499fffcba6ac92933c714270a2cb84c5e4d9e394d427b9c7d
font_02_sfnt_off00014624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14624 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1