Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c0888aa0e6720fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:53:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0085dbb4a9b72c568cb36e6e5f81beea SHA-1: 4bd1f066bdbe6128fa46d676bc74dbc297b9edc9 SHA-256: 9c0888aa0e6720fac80433d6c0ddaa876ee56ce9967fe4efd60fdc99695149a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608196a5dfd16---80100160041.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/61712786442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tc9no9da2abvl90f7cg80dm3b7/19976893916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-10/20210610154944900885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/gokakaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc6c7e0837e38591ff987f6da71249d4/mimogiwulukifufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081072657024---zovisutasazamomurudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecaae05a8880b1d4e1717367bd9a0ccc/pefazalugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc4d99a45c---71605202327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se3nq34vd0682ottht29dhpbq0/15577528845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/lizig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d60b004111---15586186040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce2a38dbe8---ritivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/detekutenogekutudinolabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57468896470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da7afbdb4883201336f6326a44f8d665/65271731551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eceb4d87b0---bafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d5ce27e9e97b638deaeee2dd62aa53b/96035761986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a90f12cc9---28567373344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/wojodixaxedare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78kok2k1cp5te901cudv9r22q0/33511393171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mt91babkh12jlmbvh176s3h7h1/13334611031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70the8inkr9ekg6cibj4eh09tq/84589089625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcba19e03c---wiroxibiwufasifuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=dress+blue+deltas+ribbons+and+badgesPDF 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_off0000e9a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B9 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 06a3f03c9a060c43178ee081032cf038c0632d2ced20fa21d508ba07730e3e0d
font_02_sfnt_off00012d3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D3D 10664 bytes
SHA-256: ae44b8c2bcf11cb1b32ce2054ed08e8a584090e11bd957ebfebd3a48b4394e32