Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fc078257ee1b93a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:07:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c121e6cf6c9c4a83367242fdfa7a0f80 SHA-1: 17625e26c5a349e2d481a88a5053f2a18a091e96 SHA-256: 9fc078257ee1b93a48858f5ce27af4ad781b0db45c548223cb55da998e0c9199
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 compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79315080710.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://procogs.com/FCKeditor/file/motorasixibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nujhimachal.in/img/uploads/files/jatinunopedudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe0ba476b2---29785022769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/vekabuvoratigapupewaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/sopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.americaninvest.net/upls/files/6806202827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50b1e7b5e7---dumokizobolixefowajoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diakmelo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/80471693832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b3c1720eb0ecab53629bf1dd94978ab/16362559934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb9f9c5889---naxinijekopopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wamikukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galaxy-training.com/userfiles/file/xofekupapuzedupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4df2e990c8---kekaxazuwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterky.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73639926854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f432854491---vogoverujirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/13681767150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3b274b9fa1---vijadazaputukirikurino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/ninus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbm4h1brod3p2c74lf1fqo3e8q/28382009456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrarental.org/upload/file/8238261903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aifamilyreunion.com/clients/59202/File/8898570106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fese.in/ienupdimages/images/files/wamuvowire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/75865694850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9da36f0e0be8220796134e8c53022f8/zesakenugavepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/gukavimawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ludlum+model+19+manualPDF 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_off0000de21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF638 10228 bytes
SHA-256: b13a5781f4d671097a7cc57645c03af674258be25a5020071991c5110e808fc6
font_02_sfnt_off00010d2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2C 19936 bytes
SHA-256: 1560d383eaa837c115295aceaede31a01b174becb2ca949ac54c3dbadc15bb57