Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cc866a0daa2317a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:11:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 6192d96c4c6c9abee5e3ea63c673ad5c SHA-1: b0491b0d60d0a0c7bf11287a9d4728d5c699b9e3 SHA-256: 9cc866a0daa2317a9c2ef25c17b1d0298332a3ed523ea86bdb21f54ec243a4b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites. Several of these URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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://rockycheng.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8865363310.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sandsflooring.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jekutatukuvosexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fe12a1ac9---8283537613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrad.ch/modules/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98010705044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doradcyprawni.com/images/pliki/wikilimudakadasugisawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad962d03ff---toluzabajurulolapegefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369529c4c30---16321859870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210906184915_1830385616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64682076073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladulceseguros.ar/noticias/fckeditor/file/92232049441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnogotrop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57272569948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fec0f9e3ed---miwomosapabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/14128973138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a3aa71a99---visubosapuzinitipipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///vazeborubinokoxeruduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/puguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/ci/userfiles/files/talimumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthihatgiong.vn/webroot/img/files/23720364273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52fotki.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/midubofavumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/lexefurogenelotereweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longtra.vn/userfiles/file/24596905494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/6508012944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614481a9e7333---32130238628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=riverdale+online+123moviesPDF 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_off0000ba59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d26b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26B 15416 bytes
SHA-256: 7de32a7806bc3103fc5026fd88fc6c0a26893b1a21c756421a5bce79ab1e5fb3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D6 10764 bytes
SHA-256: ad1b8b68f99e494e0b85083a7a29daeac136468c9b8ad515491ab85e479870b2