Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bbac678e23251f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 09:16:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c6e65774ff3bb373fd71be800897baa8 SHA-1: 7bc3f873b66d9a666013410ded5760fdd9fd2802 SHA-256: 9bbac678e23251f094510b5e6d1f45c0132450694259f9713a273e3dd41a31cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, some hosted on disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brain+out+game+level+2 PDF link annotation
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b02l07n9933pig3pno7l6obnqt/riminagaxomolemejukokil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e39cd8ceb---tejuwufimutikajoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef3edc0e86---218177166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608945cda95e4---65527064070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqc7j1f4lv24scmtdamjsfllqv/32390412527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/53751626036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bejobaxiteparufotirubevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cn01gm2436ilmd1hitpes2s5g/98050215565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf67e724c5---vadiligumewurafufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/40380964029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vt9a54a2313ga1kinj19ete9a6/wovutitisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ced39c0608---10827637940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/36015825134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79c1acef4e50dcc5cceb0b6aece4efa3/8199134556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ap7io3gsdclap7v2obfe2mpre/gilubibefapolebowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eszixv.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobikivokaratelemulepudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/11877322485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/39160798099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/14324906036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dd03fa631ab9e355e95094126e8fd55/33244940137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/247d3a024e37fe212ce6b81ad4d65592/54720434182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b90165d4ed3---92850562742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86646401ee9ebbc82799d97a98a62b54/87588200068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/58425356561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/18321636300.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_off0000ec7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10495 10624 bytes
SHA-256: d9f9a9b543c7ad2a9579e3a29f391dd0cc7f21533a97b05d788510b5cf585d95
font_02_sfnt_off00011cf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF1 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 178b8b3d4941c42123931a1ba3972533a124474ce96de2ac7935be5c9ddc6ab6