Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bcec4c47dba4232…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:54:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 05bfe2de09e515610ceed265ef605583 SHA-1: 70eac3a97bf33fac4b79a3ff9c0e5667536bc41f SHA-256: 9bcec4c47dba4232f3fd67c05308eb8e6395ce13f2268f66d2f9940a1e087b00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Several embedded URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://gmtshipping.com/attachment/file/11642686530.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba081b1f46a78760ea2327d5a0d7031c/lijadodobimuwidojefepilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/zisisasaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/rukelajagafukovase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/laluzabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/pepibofolakivexipofajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/23291454323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/54742987955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernardthevenet.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39354643157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ab058b11d86c6f056761d8bee5c107/vemakoxezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafosaleservice.cz/images/fck_editor/file/tidibuzivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916043231524531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148bbe060be0---37043312277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieulongcopro.com/luutru/files/xoxojesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxlustry.ru/img/upload/rekiluzapabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/82972505206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/robejewiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rajpuc.pl/pics/file/66261755604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaynepal.com/userfiles/file/dimesuzori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/94733552603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matonaklawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/54342577255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telechips.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tatujolamujotomeravek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videlec.be/ressource/file/64551105726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/tavibubefanedisagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bjjewels.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/50520319185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=torrentz2+search+engine+2021PDF 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_off0000e420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE420 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 9216d4bc43b092a5f2926446e2e2918c44181f9829b8b121ddae6c6e36531d68
font_01_sfnt_off0001117c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117C 10780 bytes
SHA-256: d44f67a8fac3bc4bea708bad72e83b7721653ccf6581ade62d0455132987a14a
font_02_sfnt_off00012a73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1