Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9255c2fc135f49e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

141.0 KB Created: 2021-08-10 21:57:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1d78814c55c98168a9d6370249f8ad7a SHA-1: 8a972f26aa5ce87a92cf1f33752200c63cd71d62 SHA-256: 9255c2fc135f49e0da82a9bc0c094c3c61396527eab220f5c2ebc78c7af5c0e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to obscure malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://yk-tech.com.tw/ckfinder/uploads/ckfiles/files/gasolumi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6ni5m7g8696lvigbgeriljtf3/83325141364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daisytalavera.com/userfiles/files/30922580278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0dde118234---75162725124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cab8938c3---nitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/54581840888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/jivofivurerolisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/tukedujovugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/39539037898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiganewowisaduwedepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210729_4B216491921F326B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riccaassociati.eu/userfiles/files/18128468498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/75983096887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada41723546---tezinivibubete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yetisirkaucuk.com/firma/files/55736342631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/51099772609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/79411718696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62e1a1c0fa---xexevuroxirojidamili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2995b5fa66eb5a4d36e9626ed98fe05/senifatuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estduquebec.com/scripts/php/xenocode/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11273257107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/zovabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83f72b78fd6c03da90773d1ec376a23a/30657502455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d484bc552aa---62546873544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=environmental+impact+assessment+vtu+notes+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_off0001c00f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C00F 20168 bytes
SHA-256: 253d8c85aa1e120157e7ac6de44a0e03d5a528c3ec17a454b05298081c7eab00
font_01_sfnt_off0001f3a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F3A0 10928 bytes
SHA-256: e752cddf80b1a3d17c7ebbd69e78b7b87c28fc86fedf7ce727b43005e11fc214
font_02_sfnt_off00020cf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20CF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1