Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fdf01801cf175c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 02:25:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7de2bdd814bd330e484999adf726da14 SHA-1: 10524e7cbd99dbd060b685cff42b6e91f6665c5f SHA-256: 9fdf01801cf175c69c2b96a9aad2156c70db656bb23f1bbdbeb95b94ce935b38
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

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://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/55654441440.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dubilex.com/userfiles/files/fijorowaridobetat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/solileje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed46a5416a---vowojuwedasevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/sewijajemazapabapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210912072015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/47656684064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/namatedufulowiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.nagydavid.com/files/files/48237331240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomancini.eu/userfiles/files/supovijupewivikaxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e83a31ab5c---90197568813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekmeta.lt/failai/file/10754468828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents/files/popatijegemutakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sheilahancock.net/blogfck/file/jewitosizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanasulcikova.cz/userfiles/gosenekabugajegowijajuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/lubalebediki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trade.inter-ural.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/danarumujatusamofokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwcecckolkata.org/FCKeditor/file/wutozaxeganivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/84204876006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f263a78ad8e546a021922f3ccda6c0aa/wozijera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/71643459366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallncart.com/userfiles/files/63632384002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tratedu.net/ssss2018/assets/143ad273/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/userfiles/files/549c37517a1d967529f5eb2ac34a4352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/52561959915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruviwerukekofovobutopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08cfe67a4eb7dd9002f4376d1f77e926/zetaxesomuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=android+tablet+virenschutz+n%C3%B6tigPDF 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_off0001146a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1146A 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 9de18823f0d3b0e323b25b1ed74a1749f8ae7c3bf96b2dda4e59cf193a8b156c
font_01_sfnt_off00012e19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E19 20444 bytes
SHA-256: 6bb776dc52f4d778d8a99a0fb3cdf34587d3d557872e78d9880a1f78e932171b
font_02_sfnt_off000161d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1