Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9110ff9cb84d790…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-08-13 03:26:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 167d5c29d880f656bb99d0d040860624 SHA-1: 2c5d3ac8a8415010a1e7fcc077aa8234d54ebb4b SHA-256: c9110ff9cb84d7902def97bc29664bf18a642bb567936d8e7af5e0011dd5823f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs that redirect to various websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=murray+explorer+go+kart+engine PDF link annotation
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b061ffcb50a0009247937f1cfbc673bf/xatadelobasulejimumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/51591761160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edukoc.net/userData/ebizro_board/file/fusavebizinujiliraberiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/baniderajufusufinavopuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/lariv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ac24c3312---82335116678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/gifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32272211544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6901f2da19e1252f881daa0c83cce66c/wesuwasisafogasetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de109ea4339210e6e5692ddcee0acb5/sasivuvezetazizawobafidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/897fa048a6db2f840677849826bfd09c/36264751740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agcontraincendios.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/61354112039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/wezufexabuzosezuzukad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artikos.pl/userfiles/file/70249189663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/lareja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d3a4c7726---rovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/302c4434959a85115041535d613f26c8/59751936546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24cpto1ail991981hu14uo316i/wuwefajopesimiruneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/66826685565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9slv0s9bhm2cc7tsbq5a5dgn4p/tulipepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/zipusabepujugivawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5d3eolunqfjamjc36tk7c7sac/wifijivako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da8c032527285b5e76c3ab66c4f7b874/43849937177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608406833c41d---19060751093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nitaropeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010c5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001246c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1246C 17840 bytes
SHA-256: ea2cddb1749ad3eed9713fef57c8699a460a8f6c735c3fe9b0f2f0c2529e1bb2
font_02_sfnt_off0001531d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1531D 10660 bytes
SHA-256: a2eb739ed6521b1cb43bdf68b78b03e30bef7322a1434f376583d9a153967d8b