Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94cc9c0ff5c408cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:46:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8f91abb2c03058d863641abe2409080d SHA-1: 0a7368b096c6637fcc1a151169d63f9b46798010 SHA-256: 94cc9c0ff5c408cde4a0fec1c624d7b63542e95196609eee5448d9f275dd3653
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall detection suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://touristclub.in/userfiles/file/98036177574.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dptech.vn/uploads/files/32755722622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210905132153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbularicilikfestivali.com/upload/ckfinder/files/rurifavewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronel.com/userfiles/files/95876966509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/70361723105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/gixalavozokiwetamigegusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fosterfreezesantarosa.com/uploads/files/pofafexexejobuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/tubavawomafiburareravomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coverline.ro/userfiles/file/betanutulajemovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtaadmin.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/niloke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianspradlin.com/userfiles/file/43849004562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barahi.com/assets/userfiles/files/9718120729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://998.geektic.com/geektic/files/47502114328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/sojotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7c8f2e937b48e791f13e1626e51f38d/76844344070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db30d37f4b---pepopawusamuwatetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projectmine.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/motopujuximisebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613508ac8309d---zisopovitenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/70687145654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redac.ch/upload/pepimapomazoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+game+apkPDF 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_off0000d794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD794 10352 bytes
SHA-256: a1117c3d6bd7fee991eee13b05168a411fab0fece456e277b1b70309a5512b39
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF09 17684 bytes
SHA-256: e54ff34439bb857f1bb3154b45dab237bda2ca5522307f03c463b39ff1ebab38
font_02_sfnt_off00011d2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1