Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9863c4e3aeff06f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:26:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8cc5f278e8e19e03bcb1fd4e5b811b44 SHA-1: ec228dcc995532e2b34f8d16a714e451a86eaddc SHA-256: 9863c4e3aeff06f12650a4929adcb4589d39bebeacc6d1a07ef821c8ba3069ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further suggests these links are part of a tactic to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://comptables-publics.fr/userfiles/file/kusofujevagimune.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03eefd2d77---95458489989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709c424adb7---kebebizetenurumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60be34d66e---relulutedusokasenadapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/26331756824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/90551232717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-midas.ro/files/file/82092658065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607eeae2e1aa3---22256929755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24a24cf898---47388278005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/zirib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/nimobosadowokerigepuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c8d31947a---bakixitinapowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/xinop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/92547567955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60b1843a33e7a0e3e4b16e5a3f3bf4b8/zaxutawexiwiladoxevenome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d4a94121cc---fegogogafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb53d0efa70---rasurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/zesezakufafovivipisinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/68213859833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/20394111473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h16hr15k-h19hr37urn.com/contents/files/37793621207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/tatasegilufalogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dba67cc8e05d7e2decd34e88c1fc80b/21879691709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roshindelivery.ae/userfiles/files/49587807851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=racionalismo+vs+empirismo+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_off0000bad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E8 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 35af43d359951bbc7f95f2af7f1f726bd8dd87877a6fc841b16938d88a039632
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB9 17352 bytes
SHA-256: cb4e7db61630301311b76eaa494180c948fd3e31c314fda33459a331cd530850