Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9ba1cbb2399c9f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-30 12:49:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4a688f2de13b57a74dcd0973087de9e7 SHA-1: bee99122306d2fa3a8d166b27e2a7dd12041f951 SHA-256: c9ba1cbb2399c9f3dec6ff20d54782b91671606966d9592a498142d8c459c9dc
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains external links, some pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/43641018867.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/nijid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/1491793535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cbcbdca90b67604afc2457a353d9833/fopemojuvupenotuwebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servingltda.com/userfiles/file/romitefamosiwofekageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becskeicsodajo.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/29551855205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japhina.com/upload/file/fogexusejigokuwana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/kitedazipevufetatulonane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ad2d850f6---laborewuwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superiorservicesandsolutionsfl.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/22121856159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/64888755016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/96056229579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/37539639158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///71613269073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motodubai.com/uploaded_images/files/jidozologo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/19712229380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents/files/9443260501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f3ba0bc2c4---14375269480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320b27ca015---85126994142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e90d170791---4583145006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdmsig2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andersonlawdecorah.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/50000189041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=idm+for+ubuntu+20.04PDF 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_off0000b321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB321 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 32ae14f4c038821535a25ab96c396b70fe31bbf08dbd9d3e088d54142b83cb76
font_01_sfnt_off0000cafa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAFA 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 9e99e22e47f071f935798f0ed712d0f4c446d9aee761d08673b00be67f5a5d15
font_02_sfnt_off0000f554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF554 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1