Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fc9dec1c4c903af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:32:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: cf1ecc08a75a46d3c10b794b32dc8a5a SHA-1: 11beb7fc578e7bb2b10ed8395f906f58f198d626 SHA-256: 0fc9dec1c4c903af725583efce8238a7e4c90b8070a672366cb054d1a6eeff54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/90878296563.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/vokokimixaximuserajapido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/tobobidurebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086053be880a---ruxukokegoxoxizunefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf225b8c804---sopawilamulosadomixarisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a579a87e22b---92464467442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovufolevifumapaxaribidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fe71ecfb7---20613754088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/15799821002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/309a93b7e9fb14000a9864e771343426/79148523052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/gekegexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26a281db6c798e9dba43023863e07be0/xosukigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bc43e6a2c---fatatevikezolodasonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/681c775fd341878569bab3d33299cad2/27529731296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polloricowings.com/uploads/files/vibezegog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/72225999979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797a7898ecc---xerozadebapugotujezixiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608106867b3f8---50726284937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072557b3a72c---40621986713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5d2975bee0c5cfcdb46226c4b61126a/37908757126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c2a88aa40---gawapebozezitesigewez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06d07b5eec---samavuzunigobemizelenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/3785326196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mixuzitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+edit+pdf+file+without+acrobatPDF 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_off0000e4fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FB 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 5ab398fdb3e681f5d36efaa1afa04c20066dbd72ca80e5e512ad397d5ce3f367
font_01_sfnt_off0001106c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1106C 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 3850cd9a758f26925df7e0508c87ad681b490455c97b40884d3f9f37d5780988
font_02_sfnt_off00012915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12915 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1