Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ca208713128c1f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-24 09:22:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3f2febc6ab1a0c1284b10d21b89092c9 SHA-1: f4091e023e8f2400e93a2a03439fc9136eebed04 SHA-256: 9ca208713128c1f27a1b66e73a805c85c2b0db162e85109d881b36e52ae7287c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings 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://artgrafika.cz/userfiles/file/41900508171.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29188499951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hig-hegmann.de/userfiles/file/ruzuzanizuromekazoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614231516cf4d---rajixowotewopizajufutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f2h63c2.ip4secure.net/upload/files/98831913310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/99508032270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkapsikoloji.net/userfiles/file/73664090225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411397a1535---43507588133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/zewokikoderebunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpharma.in/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/risozajuperag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29123416184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acta-mobilier.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17161380295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tincorner.vn/uploads/files/papegunejikowinosirafiriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/jikusadapitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahnil.com/userData/board/file/41683185998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14qbhhk1ta6e4df283978l0s5c/sobawiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukysovin.com/img-svc/files/jiwovivibopobuxaxamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3875829859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/lipebabexaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weldcor.ca/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexanaromepeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranimexolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309037cc05a---92944518743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nattukoottam.com/userfiles/file/32592952604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6587731088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/nubabodaginus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=robert+greene+laws+of+power+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_off0000eeba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBA 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 1bc3490dd295e5d8e1d538fab6efb76181a408b9a75608aeb1583fc1801c5510
font_01_sfnt_off00011e2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E2E 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 8d598b5790c7a7b3b4ac9b92467771dcce9e0813ad5b4640c2edaa98dd0fc731
font_02_sfnt_off00013711.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13711 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1