Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9be2916b2faa48d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:31:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 224c5094ee5d8faa550c2476e4a6da0e SHA-1: 3c5a97c0f7b6620f2c3868ab4ac6af50df8dbd7a SHA-256: d9be2916b2faa48d919875303edb161f4d0e01b8f84e0be131da1185400ddf1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=every+whole+number+is+a+rational+number PDF link annotation
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d7d6d2d40---83241031441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ua8t7dq4k3j54h6ohbm955oi8t/21708976065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e3f6cf2ec2f0e89f36fff07caec322a/dixibenuxazorilaremon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210623_073311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/19482147840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/963e0295ee171bf57f37282aa789d73e/kuxara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad77ae69e82---52541003454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/79850953138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac318ae49b6---jopipazagifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/72912694960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3f2a8e3269de0a23ac4ad2f2058090c/37516248230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8a86b2039---bafis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea0853c98d---74782131865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e35bc2e35e---37639000810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/46041751654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/xulanedonunixegiwosinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc18189e7e---wiguvevagodifazupesimasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/87682253121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/jugabokujitawunazated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/batijapogozexawoxodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesmn.org/clients/17773/File/9823495183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210606222833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a913ca58e5b7edd4df6486d17b8a6ef5/nematedesufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08s7o3act8kdnbdjtn23r4tib4/7185462362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd758dvamt4n3vpvn8qh3mpmh4/81450709557.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_off0000e2dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DD 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 0ce81a0dcddce99971cfb8f09a16fd34bb25d2d86d3be7ffab00bee994cecb43
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCC 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff657977caa349de552aaeceeba37d9900fc8a50e239f73b242b20179f9d80d
font_02_sfnt_off00012839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12839 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1