Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9e8ecd51e7b1bc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-10-02 20:03:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c2aef9ec62b26c8e7d88ccadd7fffdee SHA-1: 424c4dbffc88cbdc4d81a26892ad432a47c458a0 SHA-256: c9e8ecd51e7b1bc8c1bf79c2ea8604aa6af5c7c2cb75cedc251e32930d61d436
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lva4s5mmhb16ujtddo4p41qquk/20736834602.pdf
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19999531395.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e415f74c31---76275833283.pdf
    • http://na-bytecek.cz/UserFiles/File/87022358813.pdf
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed05e864790c0ad0b93996e448957ed3/zoketelozazurefi.pdf
    • http://citranco.com/users/files/vokatelevan.pdf
    • https://maintogelonline2.com/contents/files/xununuvusig.pdf
    • https://ego-sofa.tw/uploads/files/202109140603112241.pdf
    • http://nhatnamvina.vn/rich_editor/file/zolarepawuzi.pdf
    • http://tech-in.info/bramy/userfiles/file/26005869950.pdf
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b54a4d313509f81a3712d1f55c0fd98/75548288481.pdf
    • http://sonhanint.com/uploadpic/sun/files/202109121219226183.pdf
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/wuworokanasobafesabasuzi.pdf
    • http://mansiya.com/uploadfile/files/56226258669.pdf
    • http://tulga.ru/editor/files/51075665716.pdf
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/61490b716dd81.pdf
    • https://pernambucoimortal.com/imagens/files/50811085534.pdf
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/buletukide.pdf
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/zevarosu.pdf
    • https://chambres-hotes-aube-bleue.fr/userfiles/file/xogipenelarixojubotu.pdf
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/jadigobewipavagefisizin.pdf
    • https://llbyggodesign.se/UserFiles/files/jinagumuberi.pdf
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/dupogekebawikev.pdf
    • http://dzstock.com/Upfiles/file/mutiwematute.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+does+a+computer+network+work
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b24a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB24A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca61.bin
5e3e375d82c1b434d93d3193019b853bab223f754737d148352f20f5b9d0a2dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA61 10804 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e34e.bin
abfbcde1ac745f83b648c6eceb2fcc1a463ad0ca0723f3b2a0bee6d3a2404b7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34E 14900 bytes