Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9c5a00dfe166aea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:47:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 64f0b226409dac7c8fb56666abba468a SHA-1: 662d17ba1e0ca647a425c56ef581b154aaa4d95d SHA-256: d9c5a00dfe166aea83e778cb2637456421ba4f543f51b7c5185121df4c1a17e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute malware or lead users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 http://aliguoriarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/47143753070.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.humillacionyestrella.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95245141253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/50321951057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/paziwozogijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4782533983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wronba.pl/uploads/wysiwyg/file/72111371072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52959028308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12725574913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141bda529cbd---riduzaxobabanimuxibigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109142005066733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52860934841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/52416483945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f079200603---toxutafurufejabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/53486839391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaithompson.com/userfiles/file/vimugakozavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.greenlakecruises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5763240663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.andreapondika.cz/file/sebipuwonuliwutuwoxudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/vosibotunetiwikibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dogathermalhotel.com/resimler/files/nudajokejaluwimosuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijelararafonigifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toxewotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adic7alej3d.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/purenomumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ba0d8341d---zulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/75442189343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kencert.vn/uploads/image/files/82626226086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613381c03dedd---jofepenojezajulove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46286421585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=crossfire+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000e775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE775 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 0c499a3ce84977de1a9026af6966474c48a589a68523a39de6f83cb84208f75a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117EC 17928 bytes
SHA-256: aa30e536685adef85c27f69030357586b86d369e75d128de8e732f8a6f9371d1