Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9950cdad0e3adf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-23 18:19:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 77ead3d8e71eaeff3cd76ef01673ef38 SHA-1: 4f8008e4afb0dbbfb10177ca05b651fcd5fb261c SHA-256: f9950cdad0e3adf561c0a3174083d7c51bee269207dca873c54cbdd215560a81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, possibly delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=roasted+potatoes+and+carrots PDF link annotation
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dp6ko38k72c4smhv6qif2pgdc4/japefeduraxoxajijiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/xodewukisogikulosokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietaltop.com/userfiles/files/61912615672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfi-registration.org/buzzboxgift/img/userfiles/files/54879585885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/18601708536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ed25c7113---25905672103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/40568310174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7f6bbeb9198e231a57f0693515362b8/bolorarimuxapuwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/15671592245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/dubupevagonuzodamavoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/nasetotevotunagani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/10397290219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mevlcn9ggumlp7rtnqomfkjc9/69296187213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/rafanifotobujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsgroupjjn.org/userfiles/file/11776282275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/085b196a755899c3476796e1f14740fc/gagasesivotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71320283723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/13120379380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a3becb4c4---17398396803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/73286026062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/tividikemujiminar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc1406c75f---datedapivafezidaniwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoass.eu/userfiles/files/69675079737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/wudas.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_off0000e401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE401 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 99063558a7fa4c6927ec97764876581f9fa4973c3a522a1c16a9376582d6073b
font_01_sfnt_off0001116a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116A 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 4922051b0a73018557da366968cf65d5040815d476ff2c1d3f5d9d85ac463c43
font_02_sfnt_off0001292b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1292B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1