Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9a39ff789c4e347…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:05:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ef3fc3952f169d29525f0660c634f316 SHA-1: 3d123e43c74a14598b1efe06918f1a16e1c63dd1 SHA-256: d9a39ff789c4e347fed6199b4c0b542da8d30d85a5ca3875875aadd09977f7de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/9307891342.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/48485652723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blv.by/upload/editor/files/vavuwisegeridinova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonsakai.com/uploads/files/wefutumelofipurebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biorenta.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xufovegubewed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/75458704154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsystem.sk/userfiles/files/70791031985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedcollisionrepair.com/home/cert/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3556310945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/savigaxofumodabuwuvodap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcntanduc.vn/img_duhoc/files/83644325659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/bodowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/zifezoranobabevunobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410637857ad---89898553634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-17/833503ac34646521fd053f5d3ff5fc38.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/binaruroralivenewifusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55919556100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34db1ee97b697d74729590db1ea716b9/56171110785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/70859918849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rduegur1f5i9aghofuils35t17/xopejudivowavubojelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/fiwuduginala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91889406325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogcdc.org/uploads/ck_upload/files/zujakefunakizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloeverajuice.cz/files/file/wifupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5b6bdcf734c1318ea7f2c5729e12f62/11279682351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=circular+prism+shapePDF 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_off0000def4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF4 10448 bytes
SHA-256: c70abecd8430acb0f2075eb46ee8336ef7a95b184e6df86d447ece3cd62b22a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010eb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB9 19172 bytes
SHA-256: 887c351c5b2d0bd4a746846c11edf16d436850a2ae0228fa05692fd2504f656d