Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e908dcb98269f1e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:17:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6f8d3299824a08d13ddb2a933c586469 SHA-1: dc2f87bc1b1907c9566e416abbf208bbd46d377e SHA-256: e908dcb98269f1e982eaeacee301baff8e4d326d5d55bb4aac70ee531e871361
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://quranday.org/userfiles/file/7186634175.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://poldercuptrofee.nl/site/admin/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/barazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fac0d7c77d4---25515593487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/kedudegixujifobibeforag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geluzaxuvutezadifopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161202c855143f---38010570339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechitay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/68938689705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allier-genealogie.org/File:/kamiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/nifedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/ninixevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee388dba73bab518ff7b84bee9b97b1/pufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotacjedlaoze.pl/userfiles/file/divelebamusudotijisezeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/9214332484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161114f2820ad4---75602119402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtrinh.vn/upload/files/mimunanusopezirotalezodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.org/documentos/file/2812302370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160964aed48bba---75519038748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63fb732c46c1822a57773741ea6ae886/40309007889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/kavaxovulawenulasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c97d505ba6ddac1807cce8dd06615e0c/12227719308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c28a1d67b7---91876953297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/xesizuripufonibezopeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a54ef7abc2---87647532144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/54411759441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=tensor+algebra+for+engineers+itskov+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_off0000b132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB132 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC944 16500 bytes
SHA-256: ae33a646900edfb7c03c52e3f6bee3bf0bd58e3c685be944f9d7a1f27a5adfdf
font_02_sfnt_off0000f23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23A 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 35379e4586cddd7f754f66a0009bede6de21fbe8c655103150fa0a86dd740c5d