Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ccc81adb059ef18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 09:45:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 69a106c1e3773809721bf984003299d5 SHA-1: 1916608b8d3a3bfe2969c209082641ee2f50fdd7 SHA-256: 9ccc81adb059ef18edda343dfed649e37aca03d0f02238ba8280681bb0608fa0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://terhautz.com/upload_files/files/91326648748.pdf
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/94826522534.pdf
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ml98rt2c351vjtlsiu96cnmfk/gemuf.pdf
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50e93a5b82972f0712f23a91656f66af/94203676718.pdf
    • http://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/zodejaxidere.pdf
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37112159346.pdf
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/26053356420.pdf
    • https://slavicchurchmississauga.com/fck_upload/file/37336010027.pdf
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d352e164947a5f2da771fced608a026f/xamuzenololajokikala.pdf
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/jakawuxigo.pdf
    • https://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/1733507060.pdf
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/gisepajuniju.pdf
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/67538603797.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613210af22151---bopusimamaboniserorukowi.pdf
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/53926158230.pdf
    • http://polipack.ru/content/file/84200663196.pdf
    • https://bangvetthuong.com/luutru/files/71640330616.pdf
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/81386559128.pdf
    • http://goldartline.ua/userfiles/file/20198054031.pdf
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakag.pdf
    • http://kerekagy.hu/UserFiles/file/sesategotebodubelogev.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66878731f281de90aaf97d447762ed11/vifojipumipari.pdf
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/90808148563.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=snyder+cut+color
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000aed2.bin
1d9d7d289344d8784297d095b45cd557ed85ca5c2de6b9d9acd35e52f5f726be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAED2 10228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c5f0.bin
7737dc512b531031ec57196d3c8385c52a0b4cbeb4fef9f9438c7ac2138ca04d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5F0 14920 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebc5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC5 16792 bytes