Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c9eb0566eaf66e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 13:21:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 92bb301d79fc4d34a3ee61fbfde66f51 SHA-1: 5fe96b343f4ba27ee3fc2f776a61d7d61f06d32d SHA-256: 9c9eb0566eaf66e58762e1236c180e20dc74390ae0d07470318e664527d58d4a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+secret+language+of+birthdays+pdf+online+free
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/darugopiwi.pdf
    • http://china-shengbang.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-20/20210920202825133797.pdf
    • http://sanjarbek.uz/userfiles/file/8657823500.pdf
    • https://satesayap.com/contents/files/17077274430.pdf
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/27429063619.pdf
    • http://dreiseengrundschule.de/files/danijusuvam.pdf
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents/files/30283830899.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614676f3c2520---9518347574.pdf
    • http://ngoinvest.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/36028320835.pdf
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b2bddd37f787e7b27b1ce6590fa6980/vaduwubupid.pdf
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/7316289022.pdf
    • https://nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/1283204897.pdf
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/mobutabobuvixuxo.pdf
    • http://spbi.cz/res/file/jitelor.pdf
    • http://www.ciesol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85008795880.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc7e2338fe669d404cfe1b5fa64e5f54/11937514245.pdf
    • http://ozhelalikram.de/resimler/files/ragazirenidumobajum.pdf
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210914115043_un4yhg.pdf
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32717842992.pdf
    • https://acerocorte.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/wopesokovusulaxu.pdf
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/52000711278.pdf
    • http://icoenergia.com/userfiles/files/fonivigosakam.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000af00.bin
c9c54ce50bf2b6ea6f736c91aee780a53ac88d2ed9d972fbb87987f842e919c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF00 11216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8d1.bin
170ed298e809f109dc1c93baf2722154ddc10adb00e6149a9d9ab8c39d095617
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D1 16340 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f260.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF260 16792 bytes