Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9cacaa5ff0056d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:49:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 364320b7637038f693181f917f81320c SHA-1: 6fcb42ecfcff9c3d5013df1e21a995572e5574dd SHA-256: f9cacaa5ff0056d34cc4947b787f13c728a4b7b40ada24c2e59a1fb016fa88dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination and evade detection. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external resources via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/17176806192.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d671t4m2u3m8hdr86h9qoadte7/90114600317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stomerijindex.nl/images/uploads/nukomuzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-29/20210829175652510852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srlo9d7cc9thcmsevj8ba5hrlk/32519425998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078de90d3900---laxexevovokatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/50449322898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/89836476391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/9393470210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vividconcept.in/userfiles/file/jojewumagasadonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38c74ba85f2a4df399f11a0cf2f74edc/2461759044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/73663856222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49d89c359304e5ccb11af88d3e0f9561/pazej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/86427026457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selispin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jiwedolifewigebidokeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/87206654186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/65603094045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ab2a8ecd6---zapazunesebubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larben.cz/media/images/upload/file/duxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmke.cz/pictures/files/18630873060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukubara.com/zdjecia/file/31288967225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfeedfb89d7---tewasaserugezulapukene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/58021652799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=psicologia+criminal+cesar+san+juan+pdfPDF 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_off0000ce84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE696 17440 bytes
SHA-256: cd7c1bc1b2fd615f28d54c1b519266b844ed8e03c19ec1bc4194322c41179f1e
font_02_sfnt_off0001137b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137B 11096 bytes
SHA-256: a5e41a31e842171b2272ea997e8c32b243c273237d8a434a2a4e84b4c9946138