Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9118a055ada3603…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:20:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f480cc4854a9c5b792d42c7fd2d318e7 SHA-1: 63e8de0ad81c3117a87903e7b8defccca43fa5c4 SHA-256: f9118a055ada36036c30c5b5cd55d695994b8184c2a37e1d1625bae3340dc882
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded JavaScript likely executes malicious code, and the link farm serves to obscure the ultimate destination, which is probably a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/7601308130.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/50702765833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pefoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/wimefarazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6cbaff24a1---zirejigudotufodijumibapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ql885mcnmr2iag2gf1m76n3fg4/bejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physio-praxismitte.de/userfiles/mibituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anchor-m.com/js/upload/files/bebune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telorgabus.com/contents//files/kukakibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plovdivweek.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13865751833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://news-hk.net/uploadfile/file///16827442278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g48o9cnle0tv809klg1bl8ccnf/83764079945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/459260a0b45fc061b08cefd01afb2305/danugeruwofewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088515e79bb6---loret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6354d765201edb6c0d6c5a0fc0e1ac81/65872197479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/56651664660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/kuginukewigasotosixan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610875a98db23---luxogetirusafuwiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/wewuvukumukeputaligute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b011d7b39---wojilegowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/93370955569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35442501255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/97482176716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/dozokanaromojapitujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=definition+de+l%27economie+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_off0000be0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD620 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 3fa405d9f76ef57b0f321871e71b83aa4ee3ed006eeb2ab25435d99d46fda3e7
font_02_sfnt_off0001059c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059C 10384 bytes
SHA-256: a03ad82f3841b1e918b5852cf94701ec2c80e5f435083c6410d54ca9072fc79a