Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ced7e0b5ecea6c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-30 23:26:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f163dd70d8fd6b0852d15e72010dbcda SHA-1: 074f3b49de8cd9566a79719f87819ab540cf8744 SHA-256: 9ced7e0b5ecea6c47b0bda41b5b5ffcc4e37e7c3f57d538fff86264bb1ac0aca
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 websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/88827413547.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/bagizumenuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-22/20210922023723206108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613194f917881---dotokida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/45091238865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/jonepivixowavapikigix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnfglgreat.netsociality.com/upload/files/tenaruwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreesmann-foto.de/userfiles/file/vefagomizozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97771047185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1e59889e59502efd4efa56d2eaa11d3/wenorigivutegusuvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghefoot.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/61462704843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magicdiscoradio.com/userfiles/file/22592517906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sicurezzaips.it/uploads/file/kademekowetaxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkpefa.org/editor_upload/file/28534264083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/23438312096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b98fdddd32a845ff347880ddfb47f23/zupubufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161484821185c2---pigimebofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/wovokojutalidaligonenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e9e5fcb26ed1b6786cd83249a6d4ad/vogedugunatodenajukexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/xasujunudubakenevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161398767b178c---kodupalujijoxosifikatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-the-markmarketing.onthemarkmarketing.com/userfiles/file/folon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/96238028292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/molinejunifogevugomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdplus.at/sites/pferdplus.at/files/file/97445898329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/67312946549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=which+is+more+popular+iphone+or+androidPDF 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_off0000b621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB621 10772 bytes
SHA-256: b7a37f8cb0c8466e98737af4616c30a770684aad71eca7034f87e7b2d81da574
font_01_sfnt_off0000ceb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C4 15092 bytes
SHA-256: fe872e06883351473409b4979174570de4419f6b21f33939733035fa7ef3a537