Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc9ae2f4a7b50c7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:46:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 91f816939a5e7ec9c7dbce606abc6d74 SHA-1: be8c15e7cb64296b9ad8ffe13d45592d55b74cfb SHA-256: dc9ae2f4a7b50c7ef4eea27a3150170426c5a5927acf69fbebf113e7debea767
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs, such as http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tafufujixoziva.pdf, are likely part of this malicious infrastructure designed to trick users into visiting potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tafufujixoziva.pdf
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ber0rekvrj4sp4pjdflvia4toj/44168043749.pdf
    • http://www.farmaciapenil.es/userfiles/files/bizogirugopa.pdf
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_7E972268FA32CBE9.pdf
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/rowakivuwenataz.pdf
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog/file/93537387406.pdf
    • http://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/26545982245.pdf
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74342412730.pdf
    • https://zenithservicos.com/userfiles/files/jirizulitegev.pdf
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13612309673.pdf
    • http://scherzerpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61392262757.pdf
    • http://arenda-v-novosibirske.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwil.pdf
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/sexatajagije.pdf
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8536c25dbe58ab8ec018a4eea44dea69/15898142488.pdf
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/28855617193.pdf
    • http://shardamedicalstore.com/singhania/downloads/file/sikezo.pdf
    • http://www.asiacoservice.com/file/files/93764525157.pdf
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/2071947330.pdf
    • https://artesapanaderia.xyz/aym_image/files/78621631087.pdf
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/sutozuvafubex.pdf
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mei9uuvfqds13r1315treo0ji5/kevivevomebogebexowam.pdf
    • https://printjet.pl/pliki_user/File/11999604920.pdf
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/repilibirogunebazeduvuv.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=100+likes+free+instagram
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105bc.bin
790e5d8e6e476664436eea8caf41efa1ea6c0fd12ce1665ffe99e15d68832721
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BC 18744 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013623.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13623 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014e3a.bin
6dd24cc420bd0f5465e117e35ce6cf7b92c7960cf99488e2e434a72568cbd883
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E3A 10608 bytes