Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ac6b921f11a865d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:20:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 93a3343937e918952a619457527ad024 SHA-1: 53a20168ba11a6d1c802f2163e4c2a0b1c03433a SHA-256: 9ac6b921f11a865d194a1a19ae6b3d6a736ad627e598701c3d9a4c8495af51f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, with many links pointing to disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9790

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://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c400898485---66101285168.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/81327638359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5200d531d---98629352911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deec5aba3515689bc438c96aec4d7c41/81381614825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1668a38786---65486771920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c492356c07---goxudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f5070ea1b---libixaranofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6496be837c---30656962059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/rasiwikegudusowilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5878e4383---jonolejemokekoregefotoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/xupuwadipevovoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29alfqjuigcqu4i8nvb0qc7205/74741378279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/37493203809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/94809136780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nig37b4s3gmp42nf9fr4jgeq97/jegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nadekunimeraturodanuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/dedidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607234d260e4b---niwumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a5dc02fe1---tanonunebalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609447310c300---15501058358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/84030386924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d88ae08d61---woredigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47794726321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vigibodonewoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40925348794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/77206372509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=paas+business+modelPDF 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_off000131a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000149b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149B5 17612 bytes
SHA-256: c5a815cb85b52e24fb72c63430dad60b0cd1712ed7edcb8672b8ad0a5a2d4b15
font_02_sfnt_off000177c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x177C3 10452 bytes
SHA-256: ab58d33a66da4d1576afde9d96b09275720f81b6cb5eb274bbc68f79f70e0ebd