Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9b0c93cef2e98a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:06:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 96b4595fdcbb0f949d296b2bfcd786dc SHA-1: b977cfe677d35a4b84fc1d5fa61dfdc940990405 SHA-256: e9b0c93cef2e98a02a431bad002a9a694177630d55a21a5029d61f7729edcb4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards T1566.001 (Spearphishing Attachment) as the likely initial access vector, and T1203 (Exploitation for Client Execution) due to the nature of PDF exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/jerujalezo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/bexarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eatvirukai.lt/uploads/files/81757451948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaors.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/banigupikovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11780612163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/kukesazokiferif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131fa81bf4d1---90769951039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghozibistore.com/luutru/files/78141221100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girisimcilikproje.com/resimler/files/juvinuwejokosuzifirumagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/96288290830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mccartha-cobb.com/userfiles/files/45007729897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/76554820767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2982249304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/selimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-ambroisie.com/ressource/site-image/files/noxodapunasurewuvafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/38732370094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/75621626757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/rojalolanewusofuxidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishingas.com/userfiles/file/81625533169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ta56cft2qlq3ksv8vslicun6/87831599610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/sunesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/599bd1c50b15be3039c1d2a230c30ea2/88501202680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/vagositajejunufolawobine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=sky+walk+2+appPDF 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_off0000c94c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94C 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 9646c983e007f195f369908ef0504fa82a6133df07ce1f5061bb5b280f81ea08
font_01_sfnt_off0000f505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF505 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D1B 9920 bytes
SHA-256: abfb9d83a1b881dae4b21949c7b29b2862056bfb6d3900e267d50fadb92a9786