Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9579afc9d24a70d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:00:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f2a6b78adce54acac9ad768f3268dc4a SHA-1: 3f61b836621539a3ea08eae4c0acca11bb170a6d SHA-256: e9579afc9d24a70d7be69ffa9cac3ff30d8bcc65cb6549365b5994582d87c256
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=grand+theft+auto+4+android+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://dd-inside.de/userfile/file/bidakozakad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/99650045907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.net/file/17841979753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130784cd4e7a---37919453501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/97225211396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/61632511165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c01d1d6633---35261292775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/2109110352065668142o05pz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/80041412529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-jtech.com/userData/board/file/kabalasekipasopemupidogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferest.ro/imagini_ws/93790208844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/61353b932f095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horvathortho.hu/tmp/ripugazun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove24h.org/upload/files/nodelewiwiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobas.cz/userfiles/file/karekamumalunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///tuzanomefurixel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/jowufikizebupowisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fda03adf0ee8c88cb793f405966de1b7/pipunazewef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.blog/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/zikimezukizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypdtools.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/16948930968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/59029928431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021090806364973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successalpha.team/upload/files/97774609985.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_off0000e0de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F5 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 6d3de20b2673107a76ef3d750e1f016e676201e23a0d65b94458819643b19af9
font_02_sfnt_off000111e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111E5 17684 bytes
SHA-256: 5fc79d62193c2401d5490c778b5bf8792d39af5c8e362b2f6bc60d56cd871bfb