Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9bd759f77f2cc0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 01:14:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1fa04867343cbf4c7f5e117407576252 SHA-1: adb8e351b41696f3aebab6ed8ad6adc356da5c11 SHA-256: c9bd759f77f2cc0b5f2999a82b290b193d6765acf7790c4126fd0225149856f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to unknown or potentially compromised websites, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/towugogo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/jekibimiliwumufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ef84735fa06e467c5ef1046718e715/63505650971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-saikung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pajimewojajoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acutecardio.ru/sadm_files/lemumatewiluxekowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/tutoziwiwolewaginotofoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbsgbucafmmaf.xn--p1ai/servimages/editor/files/pigodupovineworosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwujugomuvofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/zimajogigupideromexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pefixamowumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/85340656525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filipdegreef.be/uploads/files/10989298036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1m89fkh8ge1jdjbqc61i70njnr/tapotalelafupadeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614763c835ec0---xadesukelinezesedumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/zonevaduzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/19651935700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitness-sport.it/userfiles/file/84004187056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-of-geldanlagen.de/userfiles/file/pijijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/21280926913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/49301135024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fpcofmacon.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/patesiwexajibiwopifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=puaada+full+moviePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0001021f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021F 17228 bytes
SHA-256: addc2b5081b8c858b6ed1bd24cf13b60a75a3be9a0074d8213190c9230fc9eff
font_01_sfnt_off00012ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ECB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000146e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146E2 10212 bytes
SHA-256: f342a7fb2df9666e4d5e342cd0d2384ec559b218105adca564a560a5a0a2efcc