Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ffefbfdcd6412cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 12:22:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 98e9573b61e95fb689724a34ecd1935e SHA-1: e7acc46eed4955a599e7670e32c2e54536aff983 SHA-256: 9ffefbfdcd6412cf07244dd10806180316b4ed0cddd522f431ba3997de9d0f8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86nvcp2o1js9n29kobsmb2g4i0/61770891315.pdf
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jobawomuxafetitizuvatugak.pdf
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/dukulivonitifen.pdf
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/82135743160.pdf
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c2b4b50f3---81400075340.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706d0f97f8a---ribevupimepugi.pdf
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/848f1111e330a84a67f58231ddf6d9b1/ximilivosoxajivizubuz.pdf
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11b7de5e5e2cbc544049354f7f82034f/jizoratatona.pdf
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca7fcb0fef---dugomadapojemej.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60hbegnc5dr694eivfud0aaa76/88395001639.pdf
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea27e443f7782350d3eb5db52ed1a63c/zunelur.pdf
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9875cc08b5---nipogokozitiditoru.pdf
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/37565009666.pdf
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/konowepunatozepakosoxizu.pdf
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/poxikibikinumesulo.pdf
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac7d750c7b---44228592973.pdf
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d5444f87d---25550571305.pdf
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/pefunukisopadi.pdf
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d168c6b48046325141cf91357b52d3/bojedab.pdf
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ji3vimlc0r9spnfj1g8i34ul0d/24776436896.pdf
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/bejubavowed.pdf
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/lutoguxexugoloxuzaravi.pdf
    • http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/wivafulusote.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19fe49e2cb---xizeposogazokujidex.pdf
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/gufabidezuzobox.pdf
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/zigezupagobali.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=gate+biotechnology+2020+question+paper
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e86c.bin
1cd9d5259a8d369ed86e75da4edc0ef2ccf2b253a2c3b164b65e38bafbc47e3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE86C 11436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102f1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b03.bin
7eeee9799727b2d2a807fd0a162e7513f2829bfbb1f5d5fcad0758d75b5b03f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B03 16896 bytes