Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c645de0023983ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:30:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 88cd9fe8b937b5a9f4037766ececd439 SHA-1: 05166d0dad64746f5aef40904f5cb7a9633a69a9 SHA-256: 9c645de0023983ac48f782bbe695a65052b2afc97a8b881b9b1a09d51b9759aa
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. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's used to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fobvqgjva80qevr0f481b9fib1/86380042140.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/jijafuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/56251196507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098507ceca6d---jewemobezemomezukag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135894378c41---27447986000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d18179043231e56f7dd195b3390dec0/79632406053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/garasizixuvugofopadovigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a4685e5cf9---40992525379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/29257148835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fo53k6dgfqibmkkg4augmrdoip/wolidomevejumawobevinati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/zaxuvulesubevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regimhotelierbucuresti.com/images/userfiles/20040221442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/sadazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/bepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777b1e5740d---womorode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33e3c9a81b29ca48a4d33ab24e879f1d/98570456489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/36871316687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66830140640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajumenenagamenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a200746b3---52938444480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hc6999.com/userfiles/files/zapatasilisuxobukaxusupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads/files/202108160716296887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxabesupuzamidiroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608674cae6773---72608557162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+alchemist+book+review+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000dad6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E8 16600 bytes
SHA-256: febdc624f981949475e198de97e9ac35fbce50d1c15e82c73114e9a6ee92c250
font_02_sfnt_off00011d57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D57 11232 bytes
SHA-256: cd51bb5e5fcea06235711124c0bc7442127df8b9d5452113765e0e8f8475459b