Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1ce09a4a1465ce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:56:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ff5f99e799814cdfbcab4b94487b0e4a SHA-1: 6037142bd3efe7a0770fcbc37f897b13147a5920 SHA-256: f1ce09a4a1465ce9b711f11194fb1afe8a232b32bf370c6254416b91d27d8554
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://web68s.com/upload/files/21196414405.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/kagojilivizutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125ede467f14---83846133155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/tagadixekoxowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3j35k7o9kuamlmgifqknd0mveo/zizazetilepojujeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/58600663299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126b2a1aba65---96648847086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/26322908851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/81503969602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/soramixalimatenitebasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c61b1a84ea951d02cfbdbb3213447c/83373855374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volvo-cars.jp/js/upload/files/nanirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/mizivoluwokezexigab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab8fb79dc2b005ccfb34fd99555241c0/90095561556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/647830e98ab11725a1d621e80ac340f5/37558843156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/piwasawosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/lavijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/gixuvobemiwubusulojexide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e63701528---lijitelopivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/jokukabugedoreneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjb8m61pc3t9do1kbgn4c7oq37/91864789481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quetthe.com/upload/files/85770646596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas2.com/contents//files/lilonebadof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=hedging+in+academic+writingPDF 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_off0000ed52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED52 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 22f525e1a72696c399604752db113af32d926c7b8ca08996e1177dfcfff5af43
font_01_sfnt_off000104c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C8 19136 bytes
SHA-256: 840ce61ffc35ed65ba7f03c1f58dd459b0db77525ecb4c53b417e18aee15637c
font_02_sfnt_off000135dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1