Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cad222eef7ee318…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:54:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4c848606196ae605c20445256c92231a SHA-1: c7a5f8e7c30b3330ed218cd29333e872d575e4a1 SHA-256: 9cad222eef7ee31874dd648f0e8d85c89120742bb23e1b1500b00f0e198f97b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest this malicious pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://fuguchair.com/upfolder/e/files/20210906051604.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc7a9ad5d6---mefubafowemajibetiropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawoo.net/userData/board/file/2834205101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305486436ed---51101285409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt5qdnb1e6e7rqqtta7q57sbhr/18125160062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/32138841730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7572ec4625df7c66b83eb87807da7bab/38897960877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrier.exma.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35721405962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epagneuls-bretons.fr/caningest/images/file/gomogefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasgearon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/devotumepizofaposufije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanglong.vn-greenenergy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42598758781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tce.vn/imagesflashupload/file/52643736875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents/files/lasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscelenie.info/files/file/23908463207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6b51da5adcfb7ee7ebe579c8bcb9816/67202712320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystar.net/filespath/files/20210903033437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/dokafobawakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136cc8662289---kugibekililowizivolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/fudovusarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99657369029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c254329497541e5b4f595885af9b2687/pekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7252447411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doxatavinageniwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bccphil.paramedix.biz/uploadfiles/file/zegazovepawiweduwewidisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=aritmetica+y+algebra+conamat+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_off0000bbf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBF8 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 6d55856dea84203c37185e80fa34d3bdb8824bc1b6ed04c0e288355545affe80
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010104.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10104 11028 bytes
SHA-256: fe942018f96bfb3963378f525a22719e78e585159291e9c22035ca625a71db9e