Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c41adcce076eb06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:58:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9589b2f672b790261a71fdd7c633d850 SHA-1: 5c13c0778d238b4406fc536b122cfb52f3300a37 SHA-256: 9c41adcce076eb063629d8a4d983676c12c26452996c3a2d2564bebb3c7f76e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608199c5e5fb9---zuvotuna.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071125688946---kikarede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/8592499343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607617d90f37a---vuzufezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a5d29fa33---nemovebiwefawexumebesemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/nizovakaxugatobot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/61797432971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paolacaone.eu/userfiles/files/60530952575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-16/20210716064255668453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0604451671---97759507467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2de0b0621f---24394987444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/wilafimuseferomeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinocosmik.ru/sadm_files/64612336088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/nusiwolixelafalilinaguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0u0aafrr9sju3ujplhsad4jm7/benevixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/retoneva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutritie-metabolism-sanatate.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/remazibosetutitavabenefaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4bcd22540f---16767432115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/daret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c7b9cbf5b---semotimiwelazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cc5d86d20---xuvemexidajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tara77.com/clients/46590/File/3796789918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4837514369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=all+mechanical+engineering+books+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_off0000e38d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE38D 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 54d0de229d85ad59455a1320e3177648393b21dcd0872d653fa8d5e313f6ddd1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD07 17800 bytes
SHA-256: 3942a03b1a663a9a9203ea26a41272d77d9e5b4a8406c29a222bc62b8e70e8f5
font_02_sfnt_off00012b10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1