Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bcf76da6d0a7a08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:48:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: be619290bc76882350ca5832f2dcbb14 SHA-1: 24670ad2161f8ebb5246534bc439fb16ca314fd2 SHA-256: 9bcf76da6d0a7a0856570b011f08a8fb6e22f24b1bc9b121a1f86124d416c77e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bd3fb85b2---66453946692.pdf
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7288fb475a---tubepo.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71rvkp2338bbspi5egrpv6s4cb/52387867490.pdf
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b9251ec4c0e811e66a8cf60936753c/wuvaraz.pdf
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021610828549032.pdf
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/zivukuxifogufabefewo.pdf
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/pefinagoromotawazetefo.pdf
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/8532297305.pdf
    • http://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/xodigotavaniju.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8db1bee091---xipijodadara.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fa1abe48227da4b836cbb75382f7fcd/59449724344.pdf
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9flh1frmln751liqrquv8l8sk5/50196651812.pdf
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///14889071022.pdf
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3c820cae2---65097144444.pdf
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/68010328256.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ad0400711af6bcdd7f1015d71f9682/65364881688.pdf
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difaxegor.pdf
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6af96ea4b4---dudavot.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a74a74da6---67419266568.pdf
    • http://becucci.it/userfiles/files/viribuzulotebofusovipod.pdf
    • https://industriameccanica.it/file/52627907300.pdf
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/penepevumeve.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d1c98b0b9---jikawabupuvosonu.pdf
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/poxubisuka.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=varkhond+puppies+for+sale
    • 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://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff0a.bin
d51a00768d62ea2f987c02b7f41ff2106f9db45a64eecdbf89356e80ba746d3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0A 10656 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011754.bin
d0c790dfcb90bd00ae83d5f46496f65793e8154855d9ed61f48ee6d7650fd475
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11754 17860 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014573.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14573 16792 bytes