Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce9b5b419968e14f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:53:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f0529883f87869a598631e281665cc65 SHA-1: 27a2b50a50d7b4f35eba937372d209096b19d5a5 SHA-256: ce9b5b419968e14fe2c1ad7db53ce177ab4c6bb49078a2b5d7d9391455267a3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of link farm heuristics suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=10k+followers+on+instagram+free PDF link annotation
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/zadil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksi-system.pl/editorfiles/file/xasasorodovukuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/tegijosazakudokekuniduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumbulefendiegitimvakfi.com/resimler/files/zisinexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topbuild.net/content/xuploadimages/file/danemudasatasin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viadagio.be/userfiles/file/lupefivuwavofusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b23ed10bd---16083985726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkl.cn/filespath/files/20210909034838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/229ebb2401508a42e03ff4f510cfe667/41323231846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandalaya.in/resources/file/telod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/taxasikevepujusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blekinge.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/jigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://principesgs.com/userfiles/file/33541390610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f22e48c36e---fijejolijibimadigesoxeguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-09-18/images/files/lejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/7080636234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/4920148779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joponeletapawitivozona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ba8711c3b5---wilalepojawalolodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcolono.net/userfiles/files/tunijanoratugabuzubuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirindhorn.net/upload/File/pogijarasogigesoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.com/upload/editor/file/xizozuruzemewoniwelebup.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_off00010d47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D47 10812 bytes
SHA-256: fcc1fbbe58922c5928cfab7b6a1e273bdc528afd46ec00ccd41b3bbcc69a31d3
font_01_sfnt_off0001264c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1264C 18416 bytes
SHA-256: a3883b0ef447baf1abb944d785cabb542ce616132bcf320ba7a0c948a5effcd3
font_02_sfnt_off0001562e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1562E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1