Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c1cdaff3f5cd2e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:53:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 258fcd92cf205e9b326a92bde4b60326 SHA-1: a2b19ab0c79c479eb1e3f1b0c789d26f2011f930 SHA-256: 9c1cdaff3f5cd2e0b320d9e4d982d3f03dc9eec8c9f121b892586b8aff9ec190
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or potentially compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. ClamAV detection and ML classification further confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/xasibuzeranoxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/48495957757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotosvatba.net/userfiles/file/xujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-pushkino.ru/upload_picture/file/83272649480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/motumufebiwubova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mengnuanua.com/app/webroot/files/files/difopilididupikagefutima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.com/userfiles/files/9956047969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/xaposavapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalbando.com/DATA/upload/files/202109060314461398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/wemodozudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucchetta.net/userfiles/files/fimeleximize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56569367600.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicminorities.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/25738112252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yucehukuk.com/resimler/files/fulipodamigeruga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemsdano.com/upload/files/xesojifuvemosajaniwomopin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9a5a639b26791b603ff4fbe98ea80f7/3390031202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/pupeduxemonuduwogasale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/210908132440971734btosgo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaziwevipiwasude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/lesozalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1fd4b1431---zidukonevizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waxparadise.pl/userfiles/file/74655343603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/kuzonepirijupowufazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/medijorojezalili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiskind.com/filespath/files/20210902234940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01a746e41944af0252366b70be717924/renosunaketenukatuxojimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=finite+element+modeling+methods+for+photonics+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_off0000c30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC30B 10884 bytes
SHA-256: df176de7a6bd9afeb650a86372895b13b1345a5309e5e1cae02bdd42baf4f068
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CA 17060 bytes
SHA-256: aa263d0ffb4f0291b64f74ad10868fb6a93951d3e5881c25997a76f1b15c40df