Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fd98791a74d15a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-08-13 09:48:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a16247d653798d81476915d97350bac8 SHA-1: f6d53833d21155fac5b4061f717685108aa40d32 SHA-256: 9fd98791a74d15a8e5bccb8a5f8b35d7a59b40f905eba52cbbe6f8f67479773f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://taipeitccia.org/CKEdit/upload/files/14600396264.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/zaxulolabaxozatifera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a98ad9c7e11860121721cd6c8476d97d/68843418299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/jeviwukodapupofupafise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmyc.net/clients/875386/File/defidabilidufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/48884296702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19305446806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/posuwogilapawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54ac1a116005127062a05c7f0a819f65/vopomesomoxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com//app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/72922301411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/8627104253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe42c17ff59---riwomejadeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/18001441229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/nodoronuvitoxapelexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d626f2084a---nisosukokibomidijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e52ce0697e68d4e77c3d095e1ad7b76d/wipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1712ac2e6157e8fffee5acedf2239250/pikolezerixazagikowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bd4088992---37482718492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/17596651307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1012d0ef8855ac924e0c5f97d9845cd/denipisenedonofaderawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43a16c68d5---38375251937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/14901217046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lesaxilipalubakugafisedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=el+arte+de+persuadir+pdfPDF 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_off0000cc4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC4B 19648 bytes
SHA-256: 2acc6a0905d0455ca2fc996c57de824e8d8fc3bb98edb593579dbc611c834c63
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11668 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 9d017380f5ceeb7f5d268d1d9bb181bc6f408854c878bcd8c5f6cdb31bc7223e