Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bcf5727ac331b1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-20 07:51:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 54d67c3dfb6664f47416b7e6edc98222 SHA-1: 89778c47d0cd9eccef63bad0938fadde69d74b32 SHA-256: 9bcf5727ac331b1a5b1197f3412dd80b1646bdf3d8ac6d4fa0de06fd59684941
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve as a landing page for further malicious activity. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://zuche0551.com/upload/file/69243183255.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab72d380312a6c8ad31047335fc6ffb/76283900921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/nizopamerogigenoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/24632178076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/pefaxurafizodaxuladokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/61235657044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789e7b01ef6---bigiguvowuwemilexofoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/lafozodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/xevonugesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/wixolivezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc758cd91e53c78f77e2e42ad02a9409/60257679002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/70924051051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32e53e9427a42246651dce3197a53c69/ruwavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/suzaxevujatotuwekexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/jalupaxilivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609819bfee85a---71951773219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/369ac535334cb57b033a21d53233499a/ziwumurexuduguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c7614768c---45521856769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inse.us/uploads/images//files/zirobeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afmiletisim.com/resimler/files/74323344654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/97300106801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9660ea442bb72be3266bc8c6aaba59f/40050290653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607135cee81b7---zilesupofibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=business+operations+manual+examplePDF 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_off0000e32e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE32E 17400 bytes
SHA-256: da4cf735f783c4e9e092a0efb369b6640d5e8324397da6cafdabdb76d607d08b
font_01_sfnt_off00010fac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C3 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 52fd201c14daf6cfa26366454ada3db84eb4d66faaad12667690c154a1ce4107