Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ceab470cb3e5746…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:25:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 882a0740750518c36800f322293fb6ff SHA-1: e56f6bb5a2bcf6ed5fc186c5980d9455a99839c2 SHA-256: 9ceab470cb3e574650814f2e1d5e687d5ca2c466ba45a90a67c6e7ebd2509ff6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised websites and link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF structure and embedded content suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=april+2019+current+affairs+pdf+gradeup PDF link annotation
    • http://www.neocota.com/fckimages/file/24332419368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/rabuvalefudeluteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pielinks.com/UserFiles/file/84814147917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/jivivukegojarumufali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c359304bdd---97309906503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/876b23d9e5c6e5b1fd1e452502c36c8a/pofiluwalimurufejasijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a9bec385c3---fumajusojipumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/fiwabomenisukuwoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/28109886793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/40605666113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uv7qv1imi3rocseuf231d7vfu5/93734722986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/koriga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07a2e6f0vr1q6edp680h22tc6s/lixazamutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeminyerkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/30885765500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88075353104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125b2ca794bc---25213303218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0cfbe58aa---23466501929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutinlawkrabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68954182468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/sexofodunopebelagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/nujesijasavuvutabogewadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0ddca92aef3dd1b349e378da105c826/xefaditoxekudosufawiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3339560332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/xebaxesorodunujefonibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/45020643595.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b38e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB38E 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000bb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000d3a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A1 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 72664a2c260ac5474bde49b1f93010f9994d854a72983861c7df5491d7fcbdac
font_03_sfnt_off0000edeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEB 18388 bytes
SHA-256: 3442c62a44a5c6476645db1997a7cfed304cbd1378de8b43c5628ed47b3d5da5