Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9da8254e7c229d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 12:28:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 11f907ce2de6d356da5cceb8b9d0718d SHA-1: 733bfa6c31d3eee53158d9bb0ff9427d9f774d84 SHA-256: c9da8254e7c229d1c39d8a81dbb22d8abe4d41826c33504669fd5948f6a9de59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, further indicating a malicious intent rather than legitimate document content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://wsm.hk/images/files/basezifatebawovulixazij.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/429c60d4d3fe20f09e12f115f85d337e/68135764290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312c9d6a8df---wonisikekusalawewogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f3114568ae---61126334579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festacontinua.it/public/file/podesibuxajibonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e58798c2e---76207284680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinmaunhat.com/upload/files/bevavosireximorufetif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalinmobiliario24.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/98186070089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/87562181305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alaskaproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/77456297671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taimaobi.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66502618068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://it-remarketing.pl/app/webroot/media/files/zawilipelikekamox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/96360637356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/19267111184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lngpetro.com/userfiles/file/74373108348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/18241298993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://showdetango.com/bafa/userfiles/file/9161762357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99f5fac86942d19a5a67fb844b749fff/67240850950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/40331341343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oreopay58.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapalizegakapimexitedesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=vsco+premium+apk+download+freePDF 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_off0000cf6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF6C 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 1b64edde000cf00353def9c18fc285979d1fef157f020da287862908f6c4255a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBED 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 9b4b991739076cf20187146b3d8b82096cc5678cf5982d356f1163f8dd7f8655
font_02_sfnt_off00011547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11547 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1