Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9f9ad168826de6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-08-31 15:51:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e4975bce230317cb179e7227519d4f6e SHA-1: 6b255f5a6ca9efadca52054c4662c1507d38a1d4 SHA-256: c9f9ad168826de6c5f778ce83161880ec8d0a06af366e74dec740c92d4cdddce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or hosted on disposable domains. This structure is characteristic of a link farm used to distribute phishing lures or redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=throw+in+the+towel+in+a+sentence PDF link annotation
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/bijotupiwagifekulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/belozakuwowedamoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c574f4a6e20c26765dbb4cb793569135/55268405369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfhu6ab4bqv.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/264789889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zosusaligibudomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607604261fbd9---9527379027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c49c1bf7bc---63908979488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/kejepomotujufuduzuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accu-split.com/userfiles/files/55401574321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/xozajixigezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkbkfh76tv6f800gksc4ipfv5s/jogevurapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160997a25331a7---wokuvoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/medonomamosefazedilexana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/muoaaa50nl6to5mnq4p6laf296/tepowemugoridijusoliwamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivatbacchus.hu/files/file/sulelapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837ac09bb4b---wemelalasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impex-italia.it/userfiles/files/26145219746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f91ee43d35a---2988428714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/50592684180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galsabino.it/userfiles/files/43103612771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210603092232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210805145838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/74107024153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jugagado.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_off0000b97f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB97F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD196 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 6fce22fefaeb8a31a6fb8a8e6e68118152ab9b534c6dafac95f301c4d3837e62
font_02_sfnt_off0000e90f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE90F 17216 bytes
SHA-256: f176b9def077d8d775485622fb71d4e0e7c6a2ac1a4e6ca2fe386cb0e331f9af