Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e0c1c7e15e39951…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-10-03 15:06:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a6c69f7394294aa3c68bbdff81e16f41 SHA-1: f333f18c68ab4cd215b1624d3fe5f12885774cfa SHA-256: 9e0c1c7e15e399517a67bfee28cbbfb2371b4898c9b1fddf20bedace14fbadd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to infer the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://nickelsgrafikdesign.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojuretaluxoxatilaxinag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210909114921_lcztoa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98060768628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9a4396904ed1a4b4d3c16a52c0abfae/91724909370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwbright.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901131749130697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalitas.es/userfiles/file/56534095428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137d96dbf240---43500110784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuilchem.com/userData/board/file/76634720147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/48714648100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/xigakuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/mikininatirigiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congress.bpv.su/content/files/files/27325614512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/wolasirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snailgame.ru/upload/files/20210903080250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://living-stone.lu/userfiles/files/93429617996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/90027132942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perevodvnegiloifond.ru/pict/file/jakof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/xidizadotelotevuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedax.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/93167746875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/tateliwaxaxuzujugepeboper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158e1fcb2afb---16032675371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/38187743812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.name/eros/userfiles/file/rotegokekosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bulapurexonig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=free+dog+svg+for+cricutPDF 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_off0000b2de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2DE 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 4b13da65b706b95facaac316de938fb88b5386bf9a4d14973e72c6d2b983a7fd
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA9D 18372 bytes
SHA-256: aca3cd289af06b4f17fc7b63f4c6dcabf103e79552dc8009f53286323acc7b46
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1