Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8ca9e36320402ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 21:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9b4cea473c5fae2953c48595c34aaa02 SHA-1: ddd1ff8eee9f6fbd81ec07390cf4f0f4e12c3ff5 SHA-256: c8ca9e36320402ae3b20cad9791d641c4205d5419e2e465df009576f8d358f0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm on disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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=slow+motion+apk+pro PDF link annotation
    • https://www.loisirs-auto-occasion.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6676746275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82ca1bkibi6eufn5bh1b7i3e.com/UserFiles/File/jibuzamekalete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciprzetargi.pl/files/file/tazesorekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irepairplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/75127852354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415bcf7a65a---94636206482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/domimugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex.tj/img/file/sugifupevakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161429feee5495---90754115941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148bc7011e27---52097031482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9g5t5tt5501eh2pm49nc28bve0/40434622214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focalthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/mewafuzosugelavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officegate.biz/admin/fck_upload/file/67739937585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sana-anong.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/42889364832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/50175434591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/69224697034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majortaylorride.info/images/uploaded/file/lidubotubaxaxowimejasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sedaciesupravy.sk/media/file/6859000112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137805378bf4---59968339849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twilaw.com/files/files/85213562376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161493854de269---nufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/vimovanutefivazeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelascanu.it/uploads/file/7747821717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/43763101002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russia-ex.com/images/blog/file/27052465983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandvloeren.nl/fckimages/79683778639.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_off0000b267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB267 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 168dff13382d818648d2bfd8857fe65b1c4d6979bf1be332545d2b5c316ff424
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9CC 16476 bytes
SHA-256: 5286d2787a1dbb3e6d23d1239995444138be85792401fc44e79dba25b4258b9f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF350 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1