Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9a7c4691024cd57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-29 06:47:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 9f790c68719e8176a1f2abe4e3a727c0 SHA-1: 6e047c0999e8d6cd245f38a0e1cf749e0a645b79 SHA-256: c9a7c4691024cd57114ec95dd13f293aa7aafe17d52962a1334f5929cacafce0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%87%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B5%D1%80+%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F+%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4+%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE PDF link annotation
    • http://ayrh.internet-match.com/upload/files/87048475036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f74329272---72991201083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/58332114280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duxutatujibisusoxomezowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jikowemivorefuguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purel-biopharm.com/upload/files/19483035846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/21738832624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/wexanitisogetuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152a960aebd3---lawenapubavajofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/46577468049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebottombillion.org/business_school/uploads/file/dijilavojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/19068586603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/82788321792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamaro.cz/images/fcke_files/file/83479304845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b3606c7fe1---42882697739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnampte.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/60431929862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwan-tiaya.com/upload/tiaya_official/files/nupubujepumipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlejia.com/uploadfile/files/20210902_224417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikahaiphong.com/images/news/files/subiwilepatuwuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/pizura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/614bddb8c046f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/81140664260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/537f314a5e5e0c801952ed96f624b5c1/95711214231.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_off0000bb90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB90 24104 bytes
SHA-256: 000f95af04b8c19f86807e39697762d59d92dce54c96c762c45ee9878383b299
font_01_sfnt_off0000f77a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77A 11428 bytes
SHA-256: 601d892a2acc479bff16fedf2733573a74a4e7c67e446dfb12a0d573f4a31f7c
font_02_sfnt_off000111f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1