Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c004727fdac2527…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:07:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8a8dee4af7ba6a23f1d0be182102ebbc SHA-1: 4ec2ea64b1b8d564f607ff9ac2ea218b23c9d5e2 SHA-256: 9c004727fdac2527b0c5f04d089e0a82bed35f1aa5f7dda999373dac06ff86a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of 'utm_term' in one URL suggests a phishing or spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/980259007adeb459eb364365dc7c91dc/jowigujerapevutitimuluwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/miwixuzinibomopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://website-design-company.in/dev3/damodar/ckfinder/core/connector/php/userfiles/files/wofevizinalejebemuxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vrbpn3kqi2099u68mlr5a4ni6/17908975339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2winit.com/Files/files/85588246948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinton.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/vizitozajunipekozefexoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22ca5489a6d8f39f21fe65fd3b01d9ba/71598403677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukhayurveda.in/userfiles/file/33544673627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/riben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realestatemiami.com/userfiles/files/fonezuwaketolazawug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/ludefidaginisediko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavio.su/files/file/98463521133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131560208288---86331846906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/bizudabisafeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/19086146902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/36620609867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jasalirogibikubolefonebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/89591830573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/96786606757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139cb166e8d9---93039806041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/57486186121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metisentry.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejatozerizegemolagexopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=percy+jackson+full+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000db55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB55 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 667abad606a30abfe09e9f75ffaa8e8b6b186bad742b06155fa5c31042c334e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EE 11000 bytes
SHA-256: f9107c51c52f792f34344bcc5d846eeb33724ccd18cd8e27b2f0f325ff7d048c
font_02_sfnt_off00012072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12072 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1