Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1d009ef25d9f88d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:04:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9ec8cb80a21fbc8ffbf15ea94a66282e SHA-1: 13ef699210cfdbaebeeb620a4f721e9959b5ade0 SHA-256: f1d009ef25d9f88d73b0e8da290ad78ea527269038ec2060dcdf16c2931a280d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable infrastructure. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9962

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=first+spiderman+comic+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bb18df72f---35381711282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euchebnici.com/img/file/sageruzulezisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopguepes72.fr/userfiles/file/26063320402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b9bv81anouola.com/upload/file/202109170924591759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/23197308372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/45757926092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://springkasteelhuren.be/userfiles/file/35790799792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5c81e8b844b1b20854f0f01e7d8d4de/sukoxovenujimoteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flavio-tonon.it/public/file/62545830050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/dozakifoxuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/damipunojumasakamibajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty6600.com/userfiles/file/42473415245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/kowuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sicurezzaips.it/uploads/file/98022334589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/sujogakapakuzifepeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.com/flash/thriftstorewebsites.com/file/37853185938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325d5351bad---xaguraxolakovofesipelazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomgiongvip.com/uploads/files/file/46236590128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/61586154552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sutimogotulezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmyhome.com/img/files/mufuxemufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b16a0106a0---funax.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_off00013033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13033 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14845 19208 bytes
SHA-256: e9d590aca202464027f6ba0835c768d1c213242abd98f341b7a41fd10da0d6e4
font_02_sfnt_off000179a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179A1 10712 bytes
SHA-256: c19722946c90af447567e8ba045cf5316373f8237dd0374e9f8b63f10c443416