Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9b8f2547f79bb40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 15:56:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b7189ab71d6b34ecdbd0662d43873fbe SHA-1: 28bf9dec54d49ea7f1ae137c927d75678c78a941 SHA-256: c9b8f2547f79bb40821dcca1df702597a55910bcea43f630bd72939f4d01c5b5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and flagged by an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. These elements suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+first+app+in+android+studio PDF link annotation
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pizemalekawigavoremuliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/budokanizusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/vafovunewegise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-civaux.fr/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86751988040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firesecurity.sk/userfiles/file/wukekemabamolelosujadate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22659061959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/55087613636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhrof0kmul6504t8vn87vnpe0t/33864255766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarigol.kr/userData/ebizro_board/file/tozovawutinunagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anninhsieuthi.online/upload/files/53327899963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16de8a783a3452726ba8d155a96dcfac/94138979269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0755d01a868c36998808f29ecb987706/lemanag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/zigaxiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140be68b1554---10410513097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208dcc46d450a9658f8286412dba9a52/29592130316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briztravel.com/upload/files/kuretatamodabivofep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86585083773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-plaza.com/upload/userfile/files/35621379985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios/files/49306057693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ppk-kp3k.kkp.go.id/ver2/extra/ckfinder/core/connector/php/media/ckfinder/files/bimufuxafenuxivitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantipursecurity.com/userfiles/file/49226539411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/jojobifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/gavowupibuvikelipuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/pigusekozof.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_off0000ebda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F1 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 0e8388b0218193337887a60a390bc039e796bb16ace253dfdd7808ac63450f0f
font_02_sfnt_off00011c00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C00 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 8cb062401f7618ae60718bd989c3ac725b3c1252b3abdfd96ecc3c9640527d05