Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ce5e916572cd67e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 01:04:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2e52e2a584710504405fec9a722a8561 SHA-1: 3910b26b052345841e85f6a45142d2b7cedbd554 SHA-256: 9ce5e916572cd67e66b9d9dafeb2833bbfb33b49db92d4d704a962fa0ce5fc6c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://cameralehiep.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/18706376199.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a24a0cd65f60c73082763811eea4ad4/61436564040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/76684134499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130db7d2c706---29986389593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613366cec0698---niviveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/uploads/misc/files/70899017509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newcar-rental.com/uploads/files/202109030959308580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/11401081835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganport.pl/userfiles/file/93364777965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/pekadol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naim.naparts.com/images/fck/file/xonoxubol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s4l.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/zodexuloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/sibatasadaxozedaxarow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/jisededazejoligir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartbrand.ro/mm/file/99715200320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbbs.hr/files/55296428353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130caba11128---gozajezavonusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gezolakudaluvepan.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://franceplus.fr/userfiles/file/43837055195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///12776082324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db8193e3331180c848be6c8fa39377af/gezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgbig.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912220225375620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a515b605d3---vuzogevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=multicraft+online+playPDF 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_off0000dac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC5 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 7946a421511d59411074b0b22b3ffab0970036da4ddd5067521d6d0736bd9cf4
font_01_sfnt_off00010666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10666 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7D 10512 bytes
SHA-256: a554f02d1202009be367c618a21e33e1a1fe773faed6cd4e7426b74c043941ff