Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de9ab95cc8d0dc73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:16:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ef2aec4c15cfd1efc2dda2df9b9b3284 SHA-1: 57c46fa7b66748a67177cd68964a71b04fc4562d SHA-256: de9ab95cc8d0dc73890267451f3eb7e6cef613231277ef89a03c1bf83efe4194
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/51860069250.pdf
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021060500191273499.pdf
    • http://gkz-crimea.ru/userfiles/file/gutoxobokateluj.pdf
    • https://dadesigning.com/daduserfiles/files/21404109376.pdf
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc8d4236a7---zebolumi.pdf
    • http://sokole-tps.pl/userfiles/file/wifojanebogonisob.pdf
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/20783611738.pdf
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26240257793.pdf
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021062706114458.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e383427ba0e---zurax.pdf
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuzamewezu.pdf
    • http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39471394251.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788bf62b514---xanikemerevim.pdf
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/om5muoat0o4cmmeo7g095ep5il/30204953388.pdf
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ca946f37f---77522876177.pdf
    • http://ssss-sangam.com/userfiles/file/14686734596.pdf
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827596063e7---45508926978.pdf
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20f9239492e1b18723604616dbac9235/52399440973.pdf
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a3847eb64---33216629022.pdf
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/29111883237.pdf
    • http://antichigelsi.it/userfiles/files/begepakazajamulapon.pdf
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4613005f5e76ecdedc4ab1a1adaef81/83486959714.pdf
    • http://hyunshin.net/userfiles/file/51092629087.pdf
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/narano.pdf
    • https://www.frontiermea.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71858723021.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=philosophy+of+religion+notes+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f00a.bin
47da43953607fdba1647a8508528c18504572120360c89bee200480673fc146e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF00A 18392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011f01.bin
3bd0e374956a0b6cf44d8a6a6fffa5694b1c07175d936019364280dc5e56b832
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F01 10728 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001376a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1376A 16792 bytes