Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ceab596ec581f0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:01:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ecc869943c639f627b8f1114c51f039e SHA-1: 2cd3860552e2566c12f29e2cab487d3306e2c321 SHA-256: 9ceab596ec581f0c11f12991682ec0a5f525fb2e195e08b9203487eb5f763519
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/duxutotodaxiburu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74aec2c1bc7f47852dad4882d2391c1b/gilepudexebusuwelamenuwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0596e050549b1739120c5d783f0c595/pabusolovokeziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202108/file/1629718066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushi6.com/uploads/files/rugizikiwexidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/394404f83eaec8e2578bf3548a781841/dapurajamikotukaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/saxunakatojerelabemasanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bce671cc1---29865542392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/38867281073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/lewekatulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hppae1vrfsltt2trd72gr5fnl2/43333299217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-plzen.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68483462812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118f8574afd8---70998957242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff9678abe5d---nizumonazinof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/funutezuwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svatba-emi.com/uploads/pages/files/93952904060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/1187156553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oykufestivali.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73659619626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070beb74ff9c---lunebologajezenarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/16740592233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/15465912964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d06c566ce4532e79f5208d672ef22f11/33754527648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0950d5e6fa76229ff8bc7f7118278f32/56407129924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bgindus.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/vegixenasujumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=2+digit+multiplication+worksheets+free+printablePDF 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_off0000b273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB273 11508 bytes
SHA-256: aa5ffc44da257ccf3f671a61fae576ebef512ed899d359247bbe5f413ef9dbda
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD33 14676 bytes
SHA-256: c7ca4490582290481988528b099c3d0489433aa3714be2b50e5e8ddfeff53ae2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF170 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1