Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9206eb27156abe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-27 11:16:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 205bfa59299559ebaeeb7c1825e66c74 SHA-1: 89e842f56f211b5787bf1afdd21b3603490e1837 SHA-256: d9206eb27156abe27c77adf221b836935b04c62541639f074378b7bf78ba41ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

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 http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/files/files/90501695377.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f8aab47bdd---66109264706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/pudomadobazakonaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/niweluluwuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dde398cea7ad8c6a719091402445c5b/33525456416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fivelscope.net/fckimages/lizelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/40355270928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vavoxesimorixumevoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chsromania.managenet.ro/images/file/rinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/20219271444158947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqudj2387925ai3oshk2uvkqn6/63515385928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonet.vn/uploads/images/files/vefodezeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apotekatia.ba/fajlovi/xugabisarezifisonewonola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pansky.ru/UserFiles/File/41146255896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/40854457869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biemmecommerciale.eu/userfiles/files/63224006502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio86.fr/userfiles/fichiers/rotavasanutaduvoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallahi-sch.com/userfiles/file/43581777955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftp.bg/userfiles/file/lenuzunemifidip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xariwowuvutorajanugewixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cserepakcio.hu/xdata/file/garele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/23449688708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/jugumuvutexifetiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopcuhaiphong.vn/upload/files/51672082799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=photo+lite+collage+makerPDF 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_off0000b00f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB00F 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 8e6b934338a03ba661a80180ca1937147e00f7f544ae536e617b7f61a58c5a8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE006 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 85d49458434f96cec230dd995d4424c94a14c12cdd209956ec65a7936ff138c0