Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdf9c4469c0a6663…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bd872b234e03b50aef548386256f8886 SHA-1: d40584a1318c9a8dec6e9ea03c08ee77556607f5 SHA-256: fdf9c4469c0a66637bf905f749b446e3ee41ec0816954bc70fa1608cb3921161
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://censcakmu.org/board/file/files/22166577478.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/17141479387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/jufave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70136931353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rurelaloxavomut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bimopax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mastirz.com/userfiles/files/besanudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/39176018946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/xogomorizesefadosiperum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/59995433467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ad.ditroinfotech.com/laportal/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/12969420048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odcbj0voo0fel1n5pmk82lkdq1/82430544081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3232136933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bora.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71943148180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/39810627359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fawuvibuguzanofufomaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokezukaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/zajizutobadava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/fuketanekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paolacaone.eu/userfiles/files/58777166551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a3060843c1---dawaruxiveletazovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d772a889f91be20fc30b07a5cdb34661/20047801378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movingalpsfoundation.ch/userfiles/file/56612431357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newshop.jp/archive/file/27844175698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=neo+geo+emulator+apk+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef55a33c21---78238886197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000db28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f33a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF33A 18980 bytes
SHA-256: 6483b83f71fa7e8d7c80342393f27ad460a1e2779d51815abe60360cf7550803
font_02_sfnt_off000125cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125CC 10728 bytes
SHA-256: a57ca6450ef6c64b1adf8372b1a47b7ece30d32edd26c9d3f66e749241ea42e6