Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cc078a413f73f09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 03:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a39434905b89cd0a956f40114274a3c2 SHA-1: 8b954d971cf946b9dd1539622ad1f06901a03b02 SHA-256: 9cc078a413f73f09e0d04070c2b684ee0fedaac7253e15f8061819f32f8edf1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links reinforces the phishing and potential malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=focus+on+academic+skills+for+ielts+audio PDF link annotation
    • https://satuldelut.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48464926627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/vokefenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210909171348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/45178634070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ostrichpharmaceuticals.com/userfiles/file/jubakigonukewadobeliga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jaxemifuvuxusazibakajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e04adc13a9---42272641061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090422002673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eguiders.com/uploads/71923576666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lucky-erotic-massage-bucharest.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajasekokexijufofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caror.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83006747437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hebatkeren88.com/contents/files/70502628255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsinc.co/userfiles/file/fujaturukisawowobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132284eb0ced---tufufutixapamagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135875adda00---48658877956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137877abef7e---14181654537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/fuvuxizodixasedifijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/89959415538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haohanlegend.com/Uploadfiles/files/zufobutijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24633051586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukeziritobememonalofufis.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_off0000be17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d629.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD629 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 7d0d12833b9589a3217b70dea3650f270cdcf13f5699e4315cf7f131c00ee001
font_02_sfnt_off00010185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10185 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 8a1d08cb158c08ae04be2ce6f604a92c082180678d74c5101ccaaa63ec83693c