Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c6b60f9029410e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:33:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3d2fa9f7ada0e61b5a330507333e7086 SHA-1: 17aace0649c33fbfc112a7d86402c3f0a030c9eb SHA-256: 9c6b60f9029410e28531fc39d3d839de5bccbdcaede67ca7fc35776141ef3ad8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or download of malicious content, while the link farm serves to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially spread the malicious payload across multiple domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sq15jua0q6tt4l35o517dvecp8/75127068027.pdf
    • https://chataigne-cevennes.fr/imgs/files/99538822986.pdf
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/relizik.pdf
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f6c42fd664e5270c8278ba6333cb800/62172204670.pdf
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/63308842701.pdf
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/77645884926.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/20477139705.pdf
    • https://imad0c0.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36868356593.pdf
    • http://dentalcenterstudio.it/userfiles/files/lalukusedukomimedo.pdf
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7b8f1508750f40c08adb3ad296b155a/weninot.pdf
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/tizufazoje.pdf
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/mibogixunolokemibebinuxo.pdf
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/tazavovuvufotepajojisez.pdf
    • https://mepho.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wirewisepotaxudukatekid.pdf
    • https://klubkanine.com/home/klub/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37421259996.pdf
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e97f050317---63124066020.pdf
    • https://corpus.bg/files/fck/file/lenoxoxufarajoke.pdf
    • https://apartmani-mestrovic-krk.hr/files/19413025998.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b050c1056d1---85800449359.pdf
    • https://bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85586971380.pdf
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/72918159611.pdf
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/bunoneweridawi.pdf
    • http://eraucheta.ru/uploads/file/muvujexuvezebiluzobuvom.pdf
    • https://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/juwofezaduxurowodakigek.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=reinforced+concrete+structures+objective+questions+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cea6.bin
8d658f93e8863bdcf7c42560cb3c6b8f6ca57ee4c4fa482cd735909c5cc7321a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA6 11032 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e808.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE808 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001001a.bin
b9caf6b3f36f5788c4754265ef72e6fbfe782b32096fb08af640d4d3b2fb5b10
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001A 18388 bytes