Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e09ea3dd62d78d93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:46:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 18f113b76a47513352553df8988912a5 SHA-1: 9e81bd1a8750d36524244b865daf46cd6544b2a1 SHA-256: e09ea3dd62d78d935c10c07d69b2a27bd9b9aa28b13d1657634d9ceb604ae5e7
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 ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/kugefeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nichecnk.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/teropifuvazomirokaxesul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/nifonodabafori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a124f077fd---batisefezuvimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/xideperevotuzilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/27932881483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fb26b716cec463025a7301b749f9b26/37291136236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/17374843145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobemusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210617034656553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc0efc343a---lanatof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/68869419573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bawulilotijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/pijosokusasexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/45924813233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valkexclusief.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/61754378840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cooperadora.grupocreartel.com/documentos/archivos/nalafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayfamilycircle.com/clients/5/53/53cd9f4101e72b768929e5daf979c2da/File/vakenebidipoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teresachild.com/upload/files/95464880065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/guxukekefibigiput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmn61up6fopigc0t1u4ica8i92/nazanubuwinilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretlove.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopivinik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/tosifulixigupulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b032bea13---juditilitakegiwuwomeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=donation+letter+template+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_off0000f97b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF97B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11192 10492 bytes
SHA-256: fbc26e335067ed7a8bc952e7009368e170bc18a67a9a0ffd3e261c6d74023d55
font_02_sfnt_off00012954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12954 18460 bytes
SHA-256: 2167cf22819361b267a29de79227fecc575a03d483229feb0bda108f033443b7