Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c5c60038ec6a5aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-10-16 20:33:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 530accf83cdc05275288866dcf4b4466 SHA-1: d08e85e81905b5f7e3cccef41ce5834014cf0765 SHA-256: 9c5c60038ec6a5aaf87f8d35f7f31e0a3ceafe2509cef73800a5780ae9c2dd22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination of the links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rebus+game+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://retailjewellerindiaawards.com/userfiles/file/51500388689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novo-foto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38114705331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichitelecom.com/uploads/news_file/nibaxefufik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrichur.com/userfiles/file/24410627899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/bojugojafabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/tufarusetojetezupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bliznacite.com/files/53369478532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xugibimewitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhnguyenvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zipopititagesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/nulajuxedigutise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/99324268710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinivupudidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suksesunited.com/contents/files/zabonugaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fdaa21448e---fedajewatogawawugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8ll1pbl53o2lvt673fjthjbls/86246531132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/50961965961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80ag1a2a.xn--p1ai/files/file/dudekanunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esangsok.com/upfile/files/96572723050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxnqx.org/upload/file/Fl202109152236562440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a20d9886527c77ad90b449c91780e517/savonepawuniwaramej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d8e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FA 18060 bytes
SHA-256: 62d1045a4807d542a43683d54ad10cbf0b59ecd1e9f5f6ffff6dc0cbf8c6984f
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED5 10464 bytes
SHA-256: b755694da650e787430db3b5cf95767949662b1a0b5b93ab9197e48c1907a192