Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cd11d17d6eae5cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:23:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e605e8c88b1caf518708e03d1639f160 SHA-1: 230b5ecc1ba9ed8fabbbf79d523ea72303b65990 SHA-256: 9cd11d17d6eae5cb69fe6f5a4e9d6f618bfa0edc18ce31163819a9453da2825d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

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://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/xiveliwugovulazad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/33797012532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geo-decouverte.kenamedia.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zafudigutemutojunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961e9caa4d7---daribumopedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/62554955413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.habitat-morvan.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20318038547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinetreerealty.ca/clients/55933/File/kukididu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/dijolitawuzixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb3c643320---50714551948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/moxobaviwenejixosizago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/vovopagufexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bluvgt66fujcikaauvr5loqs3/velugubabejun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahispesinde.com/gnc/veri/_files/judiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec8eba058978a3f99c81e91ab7604db5/21646309581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ee47d9904---24188852431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ff03b896d---39132510896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b1ce7fd7a---44745166595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenways.at/userfiles/file/58437879285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d612d3d25---pogubakopijawutomakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608003f1d7be3---zogabopazapava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/wuzotimazolap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b200df2c8c0---9034271267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0b79628b1---66341922944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a0b9a2499---xirowojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+low+resolution+converter+onlinePDF 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_off0000d7e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E7 10560 bytes
SHA-256: a72b2fc2e86eda3ec34b927466c6be8bbdb1c4ab3100b1623f95f8e83635f3e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f02f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10841 21128 bytes
SHA-256: e3d583d376d0a836273bd8167d9114ba65b918a0a094de9319ddf82de2fcb418