Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9283b1fc874eb65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 12:08:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5e83e69af7b2d099f6c1285d5dc97534 SHA-1: a226d50542bf38ccdbc75adabc408cf21fde6f6c SHA-256: f9283b1fc874eb65c630f6ded1b0dffd719e8d166b394355e54a97150ab2234a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of these links strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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 http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/31749701230.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/nokemetagifunuguvelakaxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352ecf7235b---15724830300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knauto.com/upload/file///vefapiguju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/97191180149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/mizulafepukigunexesuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-bm.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109121020156832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/dijobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--c1acndkmcarx.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5860724058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d181d023577ad09e118a8a208229460/xipezuwotudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/raniwedukurenamalawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bunujilajixekovajezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b896074ebb---dujomoxojibogixatutozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/tixejibiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210924205941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doxity.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28565614057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/nagikesirivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/jugovujufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaraeksioglu.com/resimler/files/vukefurotudujinekupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140d1d3231a0---62536059475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c4db1b017---2944884565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/xakeduxedenumogukenage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/suborabewuraxamovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/sivewezogokiletewowusimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piataafacerilor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/fobifixewupezaxupexugirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/99094425019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles/file/78575953433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+get+chrome+off+my+phonePDF 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_off0000bdcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E6 10884 bytes
SHA-256: c8dd7353fcbfcb9757744ad33080541c80f6294cb9250ece6c6ff01637dfedb7
font_02_sfnt_off0000eea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA7 17608 bytes
SHA-256: dc19fb8cea677542880f6faafd015db7dc85b283aa5cf2b235804547b8d4c65a