Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cc94e3e67c5078e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 08:50:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2b3c54ec553a001f2d0e939caa0127b0 SHA-1: 7ac4f621580485f55ed17e6e810591675c27bcfc SHA-256: 9cc94e3e67c5078ec0334811e2422b5e4733af11440905f27ccdaeb03cbf58fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or hosting malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://www.akilciilacdernegi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23002970749.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agt.es/files/galeria2/files/muluzogenelutaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joinvita.com/neu/userfiles/file/43775677859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148e532dbc04---rezolisapopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zapibiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/zevofadisaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameranichietsu.com/luutru/files/tokezojaxijokepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f98468cd38---webeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podgoricki-klub.me/userfiles/file/voxamamapinodiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bavlas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89358533507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sistemagestiondpr.co/userfiles/file/23959965675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33ea9ecfe48f34c3f8fc609ef434a5e5/xaxudufaxowosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d3762e27c---65501916913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standdominica.org/files/files/40452849979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/pinamunobedali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads/files/202108312107355777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciprzetargi.pl/files/file/kewafisofojogukasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/47651322848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b613dccc07---76210703372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/waxamefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/wepilobosakalonuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boxupusunaxopusixovawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/85291575386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltingacadamy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/30175312509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sistemagestiondpr.com/userfiles/file/40423386504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/wufalegisubaraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=poly+bridge+free+apkPDF 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_off0000b5d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cde9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDE9 15676 bytes
SHA-256: 07a38f653a0012a6dc6582d7854863916965056fa66ad1ee306cfc8b0530c52c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f535.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF535 10652 bytes
SHA-256: eb4be136cb3cc84a835fe2726773da253bb71f54c6c22d9c3500b828a0d2cec3

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