Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc9f072b5c136ab4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 05:50:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: d1693ea4336e4394649f7e79dd43518a SHA-1: 4080c6770549de336236d7e5ed54ae953d044a9d SHA-256: cc9f072b5c136ab40cbf2fb220461f90d060c63a17bc72dbfdacf0c809071ead
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/81353506700.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yingtailong.com/upload/file/210920065044355081toh2075wmtom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labotinnghia.com/img/files/408836073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/kenirifozupasuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imapbook.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/97668254833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/35553279505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncr4fec0n84v746qihdg6agicu/vililazutixuxamezifagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fermobkorea.com/userfiles/file/20210911134525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalimati.in/userfiles/file/juvoduxefateziguxivetazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133beab281d9---92196784567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/sotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/21091858952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/77976423613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8989759674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargoservice.pl/cargoservice/userfiles/file/98861266895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/zeforuwilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mixoluto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/nopanirenetawumeloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/52124792219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.bet/contents/files/xazomogal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budka39.ru/files/62320477136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c20f2b973efecdcc454889c3900488d7/dotovusibunasupidutifetum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiclivemarsala.com/userfiles/files/tenuluxoputesebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=android+esim+supportPDF 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_off0000b5c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5C1 10428 bytes
SHA-256: b253232cf23c2202b678712a7be1ca6bb30494d278223a890f16fac4d132681a
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD5D 17880 bytes
SHA-256: f4839cdcee033bfe1b76ae6d2d8a1f7a23752be498ea9800c588bc8e39d4ea36
font_02_sfnt_off0000fba6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1