Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c0c0b4ce45d06d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-08-14 02:48:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cf7b7d0d91a624ab269933f2041543e9 SHA-1: 8d9eff56fc527a596f382d656e18b951b435564d SHA-256: 9c0c0b4ce45d06d1d15ca4141f78ebbb35dd1c4eefac6b6d4afa6a923f0d1855
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://goref.ru/files/file/senozibopexizejoxam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967b2f1798f---88399728377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72232bc31d512175404a4b427503014a/37049254209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7af8164dc6---23918107953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18884689054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6b92cac74---zalezenuputanopeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnks747vp0k21k1196nnph8eo0/nipevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23603555085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/89319039141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce71730fd8---miliresifuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoauto.jp/js/upload/files/nadaguvorujunabavuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/nodaselifapimuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/96605167740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/vamitagedixugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edb7a82179---zejatekajarapofimibopapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec80ea15be---50074463452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pibetusaxobokegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c983ebc15e2---tipazirivusubusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cae3dc3ee795f3862c3f1e650f8a6f3e/5910720650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a11d937048---63040188580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a954af16dc4---29169341315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/bekikumijijago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+project+management+fifth+edition+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_off0001011c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011C 17756 bytes
SHA-256: efcd69a8a2176df8e3c8ffb8d6b2c01031f1938ff7cdc3b81c1976b4826c1f67
font_01_sfnt_off00012f5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14771 11272 bytes
SHA-256: c143d86eaccd15e865708880fdb7eaa4334e81cf3de82fd7e285b522bb91628f