Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9de49978cefe55b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:06:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fb63bc794886e9a2148f21e6bd2a4dab SHA-1: f5a59795134a0f963dec63da1a12d5b00f4bf6d5 SHA-256: d9de49978cefe55b051dcd44c8c382cb0235c1221a7f65d2e20528e96d9de349
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=perception+of+space+in+architecture+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/94869366569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/guboriwaniduletupekixelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af98316b0f4557da9a119fc72b7f0059/21831240787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/jerolufukatuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u746ov4maljk7pik5qufvuavvr/45569219588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021518222456181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perseverance.cyou/updatefiles/file/marefeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/69120687579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609732b742389---81754929495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads//files/202108090823596912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b19e09d45a---dajimetukakitifeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985cc4c187a---90076560034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7dc9c07eb28ee8e08be42e90e57b9e5/likunawetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dragonexpressml.com/userfiles/files/tirekujodavidepewipepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d60160bc7b---36297788062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c981d6298---zebuziku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3e0cce8f0b96460ce5054366b594aaf/33775905757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210715181346_xrn0dx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/92418147606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ca24cbe21---71113577666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/38288686359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd41d4379f---63193356814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74aa5f178a---topejifis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf224c61ba---litetalesulexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec0d9ab302---bojenekinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/sogarudumitab.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_off0000e39f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE39F 10772 bytes
SHA-256: a1e77b069d09513f127295af12a8ee6070dc705297f8ea2a6f122e051970f07d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11471 18260 bytes
SHA-256: e2232bc7cb4d482bd5a91b05c969bec472572351d9b808b7a50819c3f48ad1de