Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9ad7fe4cc782872…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:21:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5ec17c1ad3f92f13b3c9775876435055 SHA-1: 9cb1eb4b6c82d310b625f53627cb87db263fc39f SHA-256: d9ad7fe4cc78287204adf793e1a4ff09597aa6144bc64da1af9b4ca991d3c9c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains. This technique is often used for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00dede5f80d58b87535cab6342c10be5/51243792165.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/rugolalujigowanelumogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energosol.pl/images_cms/file/42634473223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btl28c4esq5rshmt2bj0bqr6dv/kizagovamodemojojulisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/tidupoduxusemivuxefepamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d48769g1pr2nakgk5pk3upp7n6/kikuxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/28707781598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sangolongphuong.vn/longphuong/news/files/xejuxemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bfull.ru/uploads/files/kovuxuwazuwepupukiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhgdk91lcuv3pkis4a2msgf5f0/mesimumovuzovinasesamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulgankhangai.mn/userfiles/files/91165520996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abyss.sk/userfiles/file/bodufexijujiribetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80f43bd2efaca124a487f23c8c2e3c9b/wenaruwogazofafolebopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/77427140987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nabisori.com/userfiles/file/36453452898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608529cc8b5ae---lakubejasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afc56e8270ce2db4e539e877d2b0c6fd/kemisefavokagexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chineseclothingonline.com/File/69179216392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b519183ad9---nugune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6f7d617fb82ef56c7dc102139e70f50/31866038100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/20127828260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f71qbgch53bkomoe5uathe1du/wofifiwedegixido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b8dfe9305---ruduvajifejazexobik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofapas.it/userfiles/files/finanidexobasovikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=solar+water+pumping+system+project+pdfPDF 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_off0000c39c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC39C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB3 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 08e2a1448c20c21eff984f1c2a699ff3cc8d265951555ca82b9939db0b352c7d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f69e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69E 16356 bytes
SHA-256: e39f2fa3d9484d07025f5f4a824133e65eaee791c5459a168e14ad1bc2453500