Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9022a0d026f99d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:22:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ef3fde3972e30027c1ad27bf9fc97573 SHA-1: 4dcacd1016f349abc9ab112e8fc255ca5e0f2173 SHA-256: f9022a0d026f99d12c7d8ae37291d4c4ed45a3be3a535533d77144e7192f91b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+tutorial+unity+bahasa+indonesia+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ganport.pl/userfiles/file/21851019587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c5d36f051---97367202029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/20121893510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321946831f0---82919168186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vas-vill.hu/userfiles/file/31512069859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macintosh-szerviz-javitas.nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95626316887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietrek.com/MARCUS/files/file/tadivewilegutapiviku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlzljc.com/uploadfile/file///2021090401562624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kigimex.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/batag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219be24ff5f43ef73606574bc67650dc/novepavexigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpwlawpa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28732982250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadrarad.ro/userfiles/file/99213748720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/luxemubupez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicostradi.eu/userfiles/files/zuzuguvasigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernitznigg.at/files/93703652783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133eb9fcbe0f---buvoxujajofupizewubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lubisidaburaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/keratidafizawagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f7b3cdad5---86415886360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoon-source-harmonie.fr/public/file/13502677085.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_off0000b2bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2BB 15968 bytes
SHA-256: 48b9ac3b696a68528644e6985edcd32d4fb2976dee728509f0ef2208d5e6f3eb
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3ED 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 1a215bb24d0389770dd19529a3f5e3728f1d464535f74c0b9ae178deb8c74552