Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09cec5bd2d76dacb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-05-07 20:12:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9f7d38d2b058011b432245d907ac17d4 SHA-1: b35a4b815ed72972a9c723fb27dcd75dcbb9fb2f SHA-256: 09cec5bd2d76dacbc1215db76aaf94355b2bec7e1bbecb2f64a0773fb73f251b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit user trust by directing them to potentially harmful URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/81300366599.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c778126100---21459746103.pdf
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a1d5b8edc---gexulemupurapisutexuwosod.pdf
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lnhjq81fnjdquqdg0rcfhcdsdf/61292935485.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86a84a3db118ae97724e2870c90ea25a/potelotowanewugaxaneba.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608312d380edf---32580261644.pdf
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81cb345243991696b456018ff1b1a41e/rujikuguwafiwifafonesomoz.pdf
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c092a15344---nuwirezaririzulirariz.pdf
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/539utn94lqapj3h767rtnm0v03/buvubofuzava.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608293f18ae7b---nabojerokegubad.pdf
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/350a96ddd91e580b9cf860d8f23fabe7/xonaxejebilitiba.pdf
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nhsjp0h70v851jqv0qrhkmkgm/87762133149.pdf
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840ed051fee---vorejopinariva.pdf
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856b4697c7a---49744903845.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=citing+a+government+website+in+apa+format
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd7a.bin
188ef403b8faa2646e86b1401bafa811d6086943209ff7e1bd3a4553a7ef82db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7A 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000efca.bin
7046337a4c609d8fe4a5d3525700139f14bc65be2332c5c3144cdbd8704c297e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFCA 11032 bytes