Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9e973c233511497…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 16:35:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: cab55271a635e7da1f4ae984603e3d3d SHA-1: ed9f9eb6e3d4d5f1a3fab812c0e7d0360df1d37c SHA-256: c9e973c23351149700814e18ea3d6b3a3c2163fc68702f87c40f0c4679d91f6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=online+android+phone+flashing PDF link annotation
    • https://livbiopharma.com/userfiles/file/metavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/28852271216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/79514038936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/xafigagobinogowakuxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/kajosapisukatogopuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/wabififepomik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/13311997387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/30090465933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613018e8a3ee9---zerevijenixejusujuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkathirilaw.com/userfiles/files/fidarutodemazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/nirefuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138da3751c1e---vevowomotoveselojizabojom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fyna.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tudoravel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shindah.com/images/ckeditor_img/files/16554655553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shieldtech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70160559059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/29099756947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghettaetamionarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/fidosipugewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rem-proekt.com/f/file/wimuxorutugizoreba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fbdqlro6umu1nis60mdk9qema/sadigejugileguvanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamaopole.pl/userfiles/file/mufesaduzemutowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitimohammadilakhimpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40107789498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138398e2e29b---98814537273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23843030354.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_off0000e92c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92C 17888 bytes
SHA-256: ec35ee332cb34ad85f5432d478ba90b56905c1b8f24ae260bbc6bba34c305175
font_01_sfnt_off000117bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012fd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD2 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 709127bf19002819c23c6edc56e27a389dda8ad31154e0c8de4a7083e2050bf1

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