Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c0b4815cdec0280…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:01:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f6475a091d9e4aa71a7c3c5d9581efa3 SHA-1: ef53b09ce0b888dfe03a7881b65c060719023144 SHA-256: 9c0b4815cdec02808144712e3121d17912dcb5b7846463f5210517d1dddac72e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external resources, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd427a3444---12409050994.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebbkfib4a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/mobakakonasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522174257831075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatnhapkhau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2178761768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/golufebiwonizuvokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/34641722163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885e565eff2---kobixuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/1426432509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076112deac34---50142626092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ac347749cd87b084a6c4ccd9a7ca0a/85736295674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/97698388501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/fosakunodumefagafoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad5c79ol0hssag846508um6c57/motufuzimon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ca03403a309b0559bd035c2c2c51b9a/79301879474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/dekateroxokepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/nobasulepetafikokekadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uflo.edu.ar/ckfinder/archivos/documentos/muxedetuvepapevixirevuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a53fecb58f---piwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/87126711522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21587281255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/977a5c157ca54d522a0555dbb55987e4/rivisesatupatemigotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/83637762961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/729757061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756f6153dfd---98921525771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springhs1988.com/clients/a/a7/a70db2535ed58991dd9724faf9b165d0/File/gemokogubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/56647322829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+crystallizationPDF 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_off0000e6e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fef6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF6 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 82122834b8c39486080609851b410ad801ed60589fa7a30150f9e0aaa60f5900
font_02_sfnt_off00012a8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A8B 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 151a799660b3bf036c788f1ab103c3b74ee8e3091eabf80b9a0b60a44e41ed88

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