Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c6bbb0de7bb72d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:51:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1ac28668025eea51a041682213034e01 SHA-1: 55ed579f2a7ef937983d4774d7f57eb4c0108810 SHA-256: 9c6bbb0de7bb72d598718491bd7449afa0f4b86ae2feae664d3a8e251d4da52a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, as indicated by heuristics like PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting the analysis of specific user-facing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ee547a25146bd6d150d9235984151f3/82127349183.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c33484d5a0---30084536142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicitareonline.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37746831107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/46121855740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/gesesomukuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/69263894910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/tutusoguvisezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/xafuduvebegonamodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/549a9854b69c6801ad25e6794f1b4b24/49873288707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a240c6070b1---37758305528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e66087c95---dilosamepijafobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/sibodovuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/16475640351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corghialberti.it/file/48710867347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831dbf791c3---xifowevetig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4da5ce3ea3---37829142898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexuspolymers.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zavizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609262cce5361---19019732641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba792f20fea3abcf1a9e237c1341152/59751685697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69652be838b12e3f6af0a712401e9d8b/zixukufipebovetono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinujawetapufiledigebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/83791342851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/fivezupubokoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=top+adult+sitePDF 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_off0000e3ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBE 18208 bytes
SHA-256: ff36371665276ba0e6c9d10f6d13675d529a2f9017a3947c5f8ed9d2d407bde2
font_02_sfnt_off00012b41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B41 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 02dca336ab6749cccec0d5db3d0a7904460965497d91a85fae731f19de6c4558