Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce9c9962d7a85dbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 05:29:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 0d4db10a32146d6c03bb493af0503674 SHA-1: ef8cd16dfa380e4be84d2ba550bf3435ba9af35d SHA-256: ce9c9962d7a85dbe9ad3514a0e067c506df2de0a802554fc7f5ee91b04ed32d8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This suggests the PDF is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The embedded JavaScript may be used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021072419301573499.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/443edd9d74b2d65df95e1b14bdeabab2/6050806849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/pepuvebapuxuxozotoxuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5aa1a8136---kodula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemtechnika.lt/public/site/0files/15951874326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipadavelevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7il91t18gkaj2i1kt6uiemtubc/18405471705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minipowerpack.net/upload/files/68351162111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypdtools.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/55302799295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/pivuxitajexubabezisezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c302ebc9611---tibudexutisumupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbp9focu5nc9qnq6khs6r6jf6l/najixutimudodoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/15954466956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hl0tv5opmk68d5c2ojhf3pbh2k/wezogigili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jr17tlmh8b5011c83suptramb6/nufovuzimupetevafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2f90b7285---nulujoger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/27663986117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/tijobudisasijode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edelstar-mos.ru/files/susexurexewomevuvadogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/sorudapigevegemibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940c3b9bbc6---gipuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/mepalitujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/nibexemitorebuxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4dcf0ada22---36604740354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/32645502370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3r5v0tdq1r5mqqc83kcg6jb2j/bageri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=questions+on+personality+development+with+answersPDF 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_off00010245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10245 11084 bytes
SHA-256: d81a97ac66c3552c862842dace74e31fda4220ffe15a7b2535062aa75033a9f9
font_01_sfnt_off00011c0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C0E 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 7945873ff07b114746ba2b286476b63d19aa9037185b20ac611a43d44bac4d93
font_02_sfnt_off000147df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1