Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ec348d1122b0547…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-23 18:55:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 74d9217cc20cbc9b20316d7fd15ea467 SHA-1: 8973291042a6d6432e1282612a6c46f64f18e402 SHA-256: 9ec348d1122b05476e757fd1db39cc7714fa38717b103154b30632fa4485aa53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of a high ML score and ClamAV detection indicates malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading malware or visiting phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://fminterativa.net/cms/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17761501608.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb7b87a176a---mefapunujugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/46562568911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58772699537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datavincity.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20593485481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83a892dd1e---bitanaxuzatepagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/39462030393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a549d2e05a3---62757707750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/7442380516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/mofunamudanorozadumapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonassociateslaw.com/Test/JabzMedicalBillingService/userfiles/file/39277067263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zold-kommando.hu/files/78544195953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itcck.org/upload/editor/file/gobafogilusivadadafakalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/786alsoumbc8d1ao4rvja2v58q/46014483783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/50411737757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oxigensupplies.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/13940287791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenext.pk/userfiles/files/595433449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fugaxurido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-dvere-online.cz/media/upload/upload/file/18660433977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/88801303067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/74428948339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/sisafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=download+rufus+for+windows+7+64+bitPDF 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_off0000e493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE493 10836 bytes
SHA-256: fe340618440926fd02d5d6319e5f3bae4f82f452461d8fce53d9ffe923b305d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 373b9ec31d9844974a23330b9b525b5346a278e5e91ed5b08eb1344ca6d448b0