Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ffce1f67eb2fdf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 08:47:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 27ff021f650a86265d9fc42fc4ea5f58 SHA-1: 0cad4a4a045df4388da1e4203be160a54c5eb618 SHA-256: 9ffce1f67eb2fdf933e8e01a11f68ac0bd53c4dbef4f5d36ecd67b3a83154523
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://esllearningbydesign.com/app/webroot/files/file/59924928191.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vincitydata.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/54249154477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-system.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ronevavagase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/58412110560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/lavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezsprinting.com/userfiles/file/lalimadezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/fulafarevotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cualuoiskydoor.com/webroot/img/files/10474903548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzion-u-zamku.cz/files/file/womikaruxibekojazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c55273b1a3aa2f32068ad2173a9f0d6/78803404984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/2337667918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161375cb27f823---pemupunerinazag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benmoonpharma.com/userfiles/file/55135586707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.tools/userfiles/files/71725915611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80063844956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/25041597899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mi-stores.com/basketballtotaal/images/editor/file/40059872049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journalofcritique.com/ckdosyalari/upload/files/bexijimojafamawufagivuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16137079c16306---77196209116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/55801628563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64967727142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/janusovetedenipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happyfun.tw/uploads/files/202109180647532518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/vowafotodiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+stop+getting+emergency+alerts+on+my+phonePDF 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_off0000b0aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0AA 15020 bytes
SHA-256: b6a49e5cb1be69cf6ba3c3ba5a3a1dc4f7c3005426ccc9c2c95833e1fbe1bde4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD690 11012 bytes
SHA-256: b0337e60980cee5ce33c49a9e1a779600a3038c8b60043979d6d9cd3717efd67
font_02_sfnt_off0000f006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF006 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1