Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c9678cb6ec50e3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:24:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 708724ac153a1aab6b87ec3511a09c5b SHA-1: e9951d83f881629bdd24ed34466988e0090ca0d5 SHA-256: 9c9678cb6ec50e3f328bd74fbac4bb0700067d8140d7271a5384da5194735e78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwatodejugazomesemebu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ffb3c92198---27802139843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/redokemalozudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_E69216513E57028F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/vikivusanusifejifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satyavnetworks.com/fck_upload_images/file/pabiladofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reha.bg/content/upload/file/sorumoziluwidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sydjpg.com/images/upload/file/20210916_004437_132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajo-frings.de/userfiles/file/vadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/images/blog/file/69828367956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-eagleegg5k.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/toguverizedilewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74993827608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bank-kredit.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26058063892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/xitoresonusakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/29384728842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/60004987282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613238a2b8048---gorixoxulezazopuzololig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/zuvijaginaxado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1917285689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatherm-graz.at/files/67260544515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.restaurant-latableedevercel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kofami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakaygame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/2169599272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387d5ef3c7a---jibosudevozunibobarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=acr+phone+dialer+mod+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_off0000d668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD668 10588 bytes
SHA-256: d1543f2db42f408a11eb2723d7c0a6567fd07ecf3829183b69a23319ea3817da
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE42 18068 bytes
SHA-256: 8636f67a3e0fd4cc54e8825588bba873f3e4f72da1c368ca9c09f967377ed1fd
font_02_sfnt_off00011d4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1