Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9059bf64bff08f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-31 16:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d36309a4e95ca7634dc99b9ea55641b8 SHA-1: 26dc65e901b13674d07d986d715c7d4aaaae128c SHA-256: e9059bf64bff08f63a3b3ec165a8d48474e29b5a2fc0cd7b8ec429ab8a88c31f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting domains. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing sites or download further 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 http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/71743522196.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74acb98150---43838457559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/3333902564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teresachild.com/upload/files/23147368052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/13046354178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984ac4de943---57963617774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/narirodabipikemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpn1971.org/clients/a/a2/a25689677492d603657f1241a2a69ea8/File/fixunisafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd63fcdfab9---50139636987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c4411ff5db24c225addc6052bb759c9/ruxozuzedolugevepuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindel-relax.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jojebanojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52195449591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24de3a2e65---xixajidilufamitezetak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nh3mteltjere1f4gsklhm0o0mg/58103791987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/biridefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45cb291a61f6c16d2b69a6b2a51991f2/26194222768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a425c69d33af2b96cc74a0dd11a185a/buboxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/delupuderirowafus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/67458377816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/025b2958b12b3913ff5a0b1372fbace0/faxumizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3632f7fdb3---18271499776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2de1a6529---91166606840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/welunuzuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/90136889768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+adjective+and+adverb+prepositional+phrasesPDF 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_off0000e5d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE9 11140 bytes
SHA-256: d9c7d7f3c7ca66e24737e1a60ba0b4fda07b0b13ef12205e4d08408d31d39fda
font_02_sfnt_off000117b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B0 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 37e005a71c0442bee80ea63fb5dd9a9dd4c5223f8a30b2a3153b5234babef0df