Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c608ec12a935f9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:33:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9ee65a5b398ddec0e764843bd096250f SHA-1: c3fe98598f80d36948dcc65308537662a587bc5f SHA-256: 9c608ec12a935f9b9cbd3124a7eb0941eba5953a6bf780769bac1b0e782f0427
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and link farm characteristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/25461787254.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f105b0f985---mudabajufugevikegemupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4b9fe9a8c---10062110974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/81623845995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c93eb5ce6d0ea3556d27ae614ff0b9a/32195120273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d91ae9cb7e5---19888759539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/wefabivebezetuxudatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4133fa1a0de1f28da1fac174d5fe759/35061323424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdlg4bl2brj5bbtlqd7t6u37qg/kujogaxozasotupadene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/matonulegunulizini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f521d3bb677df1aca74b59676338462a/9115919536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/tujibijonapadawujawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/wabunawovomajunagibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigandtallking.com/userfiles/file/47386403766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b3bf838e4bbe35eda778018e3e4711/wuvira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/urc01rerra3rueofkf19udjj3m/6696146705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d5395ee34---xovusulubekatezem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38fda479305610dc799278376356c9ba/xanefevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210507101050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9o2qredqn0p6bh7krvlosijv83/62893718839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d1d9a222b4dc7a61d98601fe1eb5d93/gajiduluninebunoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/58260789231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/44225634374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a7c375fb7fb0b48fc62cdcc4618bf71/37148953316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/digolimipixetut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=area+code+559+location+mapPDF 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_off0000e7e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E8 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 8958a7740ede8bf40a9270601dcbb0568ffe393cd3e21728f1689f60873f52bb
font_01_sfnt_off000100ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BA 18420 bytes
SHA-256: 30be4e3e90bec224f8373c5f7a0b0943daa0ca9b89d1557a63dcc974117b9546
font_02_sfnt_off00012f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1