Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9ce0ffd419c12bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.3 KB Created: 2021-10-12 11:03:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 8aa1ee0c8484dda9175d16a230222a53 SHA-1: 84cbb6cdcbf46433afeeade5b4ee8912e1297774 SHA-256: b9ce0ffd419c12bf063d6b5202f658feb5018b598ddee423df39612085098b82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially untrustworthy hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9871

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 http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e09877fa67---papexoferudosoza.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://reylab.com/userfiles/file/giritidoduzokogidus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/ziwepuwibaxaboviko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obraz-tlt.ru/userfiles/file/37058360576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130985f32877---36752080502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebizplus.com/userfiles/file/87682477529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/44676474350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/60531166711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/jekisilelanurujevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilegujavakex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzeiger.com/userfiles/file/49348414457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/vekalebopinalizisatavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb909dae42---72242773270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/48140116569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e5032346b9---31418119126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/24340735903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/98822466811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3i6dq3p59224bdclpesseabm14/19877953602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suadienlanhhanoi.net/upload/files/32949273601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109140738283253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20211003_063145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369eb55ab51---kubafodatujube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/59368687107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxoritozodimugesalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/64798215043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/boxesajunuxupasimafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/EqozwcbAC44/uplcv?utm_term=saint+names+for+baby+boy+and+meaningPDF 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_off0001aa4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AA4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001c263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C263 10980 bytes
SHA-256: fca5b91104d27e35cd6e481625692b5220dc3ba5761ab8e13093b9d6aef302ca
font_02_sfnt_off0001dba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DBA1 21392 bytes
SHA-256: a5a28ebcd1cbb5a21c50089652bd446afdc6f27eb6a4900ad3a3df764d750042