Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c0757e8464cc0b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-09 00:03:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f3c762f92eecbd40237f94e2178e908e SHA-1: 01cfcf531f07c86e12c560f6c14c2a24db313f06 SHA-256: 9c0757e8464cc0b57c39ff424a5e063405a4ff11e1f304768973516d276cf4f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites through a link farm.

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://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429183552324919.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/movedevurutagikaxafafokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9pl4ao5kggrgomvq0mhu1pi12/tukerupajonik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/46643573411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5cf4988f64---47984954128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/7278620228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd213b9d2a5---49236120331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0o992idt42sem5csl7es3hj9h/67213878853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb90498bb4a---34649275906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a470f2648b7---61709442689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de5423bfc2d---20754786926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/35410577496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilcaminodaugo.it/file/8938380434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75568193e3---56796460797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f5541282f---41687773980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dbdafeb1c2420798ddcaae99c3264ef/walebesuxubope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/733d4f7a21d5719ea15690e51ccef556/tosezakudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fa9598e5c---pakaliraxato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephlillianmorrisfamily.com/clients/59960/File/2024096591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/672b4d10ffef0dda2dcacea7b1e21829/gojepuwajenigaxitibuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e3ba92fb6---linas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0151ecf0dfa152b3375282fb19e0762/52415437950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/mijikavugakupejubepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/dafazedujevibapolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijitalsanat.link/upload/files/worijufoliwaxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=what+were+the+13+reasons+whyPDF 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_off0000efef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEF 10484 bytes
SHA-256: ea080778bd6a3c6f50b3029240db5503e567d515a36ef3ce77d5054c03ee56a6
font_01_sfnt_off000107ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012001.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12001 17848 bytes
SHA-256: 36862d04d6952f7ebd24562952c245a9422be1e34294c47c141d14e50b2d46b0