Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d9900cdd4f93649…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 84aa68e9a61d6426b47a9e1385543905 SHA-1: e8ccce659af4b1be0f5f6b761cb650c976496dbd SHA-256: 9d9900cdd4f936499b69fd1e4ad96e13071741e881e21facc7c06a6203184c1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF-specific heuristics related to URI and link farms reinforces this assessment.

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+cast+receiver PDF link annotation
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tokaxusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/gidotoxejetibawobabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96258a1350c5192cfdb3bf979abc640d/dabufujiwebezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamwn.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/reledegoras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/ganigekuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/65889919871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84544522932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geloracinta.com/contents/files/jedadalufaxafinepoliwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.com/userfiles/file/8790189896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8747d29fafd8952aefe6f2ce291ec5de/52535757421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybyblos.com/userfiles/file/tivoliferamusira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/dezamufononedavatevaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aporpeter.ro/userfiles/file/bamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358122d38d0---funopib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pieseclimaauto.com/files/file/69981923003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/lonidepefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/84648542406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hsbofmn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mutewaxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noursportevents.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/xivubufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyneco.kr/userData/board/file/jazivujelopoguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145abf67d54b---73149781471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/96996736750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67001169113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9457d5a0156a6fb93388142e05badd0e/vexatererovagibabajifi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCDB 17896 bytes
SHA-256: c6aa2ef6d6a64c8032c54580ad3b2ac279d284d794d861d90ceda17fb8aa99e6
font_01_sfnt_off00010b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12356 10364 bytes
SHA-256: d3996f756e14340a6c48230677aa58be7f8c272c92bdfb57894bb6b20b8ef1b8