Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c170f50af607b7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-05 11:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c1a18d4a6fd41f119c8418f1f14fc6ae SHA-1: 1ddd5bce9efb65358f979ac9619eebca0d7ae487 SHA-256: 9c170f50af607b7fc9defab095025d97bcee99e1c75ff874edb67cbaca108bcb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters indicate an attempt to leverage SEO for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c042c6a65ec---saxerupasuxipiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609491b1b8744---72097532932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthodoxvaidikasanghom.org/userfiles/file/87914921711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/07/files/210701035029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f76110e4d---90709901020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/44486893326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb56442d2f---7550479077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/vuzojipajolijagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/biguribeliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/darimukazumuzadogexeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4f0e1eb24---tekinegojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/wiraledagabebekidolofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d10jni5iqmn6iveaipm124rsmd/nefazofekusoximopudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73828ee556---61960038440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3720785c997abdcc0ff117e2992246c9/15033540888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082533b8e7aa---56254157556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/31916934136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/rivotobuladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf7110c0bb---62534886866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c175944bb6a7f93fdd5269de0eb062c/sibogivumevoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/xilugupiroritezanebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimatyzacjaradom.pl/userfiles/file/16355265545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19208589652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sd8nucohiqefpse4gihno3s2u6/sebidibuzaxetavasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosg.net/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210724123654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+enable+inventory+in+tallyPDF 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_off0000ee6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6D 17156 bytes
SHA-256: c750f42ee77897280334fb4ab3349353e87aff75beb4b81b131733de92b79437
font_01_sfnt_off00011b6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13386 10328 bytes
SHA-256: d5101657df12eacbee9cbc64b55bbc9a388120a50c817b697f1bbd766bff1e1c