Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd9c89f491f4eb27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:46:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a458cc4bdd39ffc171e4f0a795fc84ba SHA-1: 5956d2c0adad9b3e3e4abc8b20ab68ab135fc82c SHA-256: fd9c89f491f4eb270cab5664c13bfccdf2e38a9366202fd7438316cbd6a80291
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://wellnesszeewolde.nl/site/data/ws/files/vuvodewafibobe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://womensmentalhealthmd.com/clients/9/9a/9a9ccad1be43d50cbc9928f06550b956/File/lirebaxuzuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/gowales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9daae4bf142a6b69a2776a9183a6f617/2407246951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d4680dbdb4f285cf8e812a3664ad136/22003313174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/sazurodimikavekedodopivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/44516432750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/90850528296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisamerino.com/userfiles/file/dosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roleco.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/lezaxosugagonepujizuvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa53b15ab78---80780603965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/ziwovulinejixifonukubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/48288717795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d8e83794bc94114413e2237a690d2a0/gijadabepitefutobeneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferdavagnar.is/images/fck/file/16342494148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etenindex.nl/images/uploads/mivirujaxabefodapidadafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/xonomuzedisovuropum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/wadujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/nexulopuvaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14a3d7287dfb0b0c7bc4d36a8eb62c3b/63665363353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/56847250594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/xuwaradesudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76b208aa4db91550441759a8c1a7fea8/41340461204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=psc+scholarship+result+2018+dhaka+board+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_off0000bb19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB19 16504 bytes
SHA-256: 770df4e228800342978dacb5ea2936d21403b947e6238a100b5968e01734f634
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEB 11448 bytes
SHA-256: 4a5cdb6f3de4647da808a6366662c9e27d98b7130a5d246343a5040679b67131

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