Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9776e3cc21d04f0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 07:38:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e0bc008a3014c984deaa2fa675dded33 SHA-1: 15938176876051a602ce14afc5ec9f32b603560a SHA-256: 9776e3cc21d04f0b7ca85826e6a503cec0c6d417a5ad06a1199f9af6d448536e
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 ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further supports a campaign-driven distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/2964563317.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/77619132138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379852a9b08---romigakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlugopis.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/besixujigiletop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/40197727478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitjaya.com/contents/files/6730038686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6bbb2ba8309db05e29b09ad5055fc1/gidebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusbiz.kr/data/editor/file/1905239973613cc2808d214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/50295038133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomontironi.eu/userfiles/files/3195448814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vincdq5ue5482lj2h8dbdtm8j/zafetepokajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutipatika.hu/userfiles/files/24639178429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cb3877ec4---nalozotorilakezaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/82476189324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jidazamobawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewaterdamagedfw.com/test/fckeditor/uploadfiles/file/xurejenuwagosudepani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhandmadeitems.com/userfiles/file/31186598173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anbuadidravidarmatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98101089887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanalprofi.at/UserFiles/file/voxepizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sino-web.net/filespath/files/20210913123056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/86479230181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/779553270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49815864709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriramsteels.in/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77289678307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=paint+the+town+red+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_off0000b819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB819 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d030.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD030 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 6f530d0485a9c83ab7d04322402f797e714ab4af8f6cffdf34d07da1f2908dcc
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DF 15396 bytes
SHA-256: 6a75f059faf65632390ee6051de6af09a1fe814024754f024ec037a55e2c5f5f