Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ccfb60f72b683d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-10-09 20:49:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: e928531416b4d11f18861c39772eb650 SHA-1: da81b7e3c40af173c9cbc9a8f934e4caafd690e3 SHA-256: 9ccfb60f72b683d911263e096942727fc00d58abffb6b01e767ce9e30b8985d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=signs+of+hyperglycemia+in+adults PDF link annotation
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/kefinunasugibolanavifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/nogupamidok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///20210909181947_148584126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/61239910697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16160d2e24d14d---gazuzago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents/files/mafimawupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/gaboxidexewonogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/nevarawiwirilofujelololij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3292d209ae7b3514d16be9f6c1ef0daf/kegonusegugadujuwaparovev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailythang.com/userfiles/files/zejunutonitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ee2ce1a9c7---76248186882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coopinproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muvimagupuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vps73.juicy-group.com/editor_upload_image/file/60679002798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/95839345015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j-kowalewski.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/25738401952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scarpatti.com/files/dupapokoxuzebopunewex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/2229079258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semanbio.com/upload/files/jipukosebuderanidurewepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9180555536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamecoast.by/uploads/files/sasokonotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/kupubowotowesulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dijladentalcenter-qa.com/userfiles/file/komakupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activsport.ro/userfiles/file/juvewaxixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/68248318442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartlandgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojogurulasizidojerosedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsup.co.th/uploads/ckfinder/files/40021761753.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_off0000d006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD006 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e81d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81D 11356 bytes
SHA-256: cded62919c89f2341691042805db22f410cdb8c11c3d34c8d9f53aa9704cb4de
font_02_sfnt_off00010272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10272 17012 bytes
SHA-256: 83f69f171992d23394b2cd9367b3d305abe52e50777348a9f2f9616cbdf61ae2