Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9dfa5bc8ba17f38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:20:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6cff12aad89023853bca1c2be42463a4 SHA-1: 1adfd6261ca7c98f3d058e1b27288b83ea247559 SHA-256: f9dfa5bc8ba17f38a38351914c696b43a14ca527716b472d1e6b6e950d8ab603
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification as malicious, along with heuristics flagging compromised CMS uploads and link farms, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern is the exploitation of user trust through malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=radio+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://productinfo.in/konadnew/userfiles/file/95505700423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/jidedufonumubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/vowikazudewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/kosexiporilegonikudizone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuclubcr.com/campannas/file/2903474557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/87248829610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanyuchina.com/upload/files/69102141416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91839377025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/sobubadojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xprchemical.com/upload/files/wanogalinobimoxosijipadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/desezur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tornyanggrace.com/upload/file/melowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/baxiditubajivajavatut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.org/CKEdit/upload/files/nakebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10545467753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/12530737810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineuniverse.us/userfiles/file/dewonurirelonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319b650b697---93638001684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2b0330299---93508839960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divanich96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jotufixukisomejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimolibosanubezosejoxipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemnhapkhau.com/upload/files/rutuzakugojaxogejajosigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d319e28b3---79427305129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/62351879446.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_off0000bd09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD09 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 713d0bcf2d1211b17264d0287fe0d8d4ae5330ecfeba4beaff601325c6714c78
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F0 10044 bytes
SHA-256: fd10df3c1e18b6d619f6e975e59684a5f9db57495bdbfa69219c9c81b9f2b36e