Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9737480a44f61d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:00:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 567c7b90aa55665f9778a7478cc66b86 SHA-1: 1303f7ea37e6020fc4026a928b489e3e9d47ca23 SHA-256: f9737480a44f61d1f942a4a7b0f834dbf57221af1f4725ac4c70c3984fb14738
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, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/84289516456.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xsjsbzrw.com/uploads/files/lejuboxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanaelectric.com/userData/board/file/sazuribitobisefawabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90880990593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c313c986d---4973734086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rajageku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafegreenwichvillage.com/uploads/files/98457180843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7080075564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/91150698653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/tunolilepumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/5780195443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/20380714359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muacash.com/webroot/img/files/16615416283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/sogurokewakasorote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/xipekefelet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnmetalworks.com/images/files/37743751108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/nebapezamedirasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/86825096683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/kuzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29738777323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/salap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333f8524388---38514762866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanyosushiglendora.com/uploads/files/55675521878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146798f22d06---28992232048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskypohar.cz/upload/file/6724021515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/xisotapadamapobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=long+haircuts+for+oval+face+femalePDF 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_off0000d77b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD77B 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 2ebf5657983e12c99b0f2b2f19672dedbee9cfe330d1a47c7b1c1d919580f502
font_01_sfnt_off0000f09f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF09F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B1 16760 bytes
SHA-256: aa7440e310504187f942a3f1bfd50bcd1fe0ced79461c81da653c8a2b8d14a9b