Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c6e3ae9572e4988…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-07-15 22:44:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 4fa2fb28a290a8647228ff92d6a4906d SHA-1: da75637e8ae8a5d39ee85faff57620121122585a SHA-256: 9c6e3ae9572e4988c082288f87915c92ad220bab89e5e06fb8d75f325033cad8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9800

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 http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f7753f963---fizaguwis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/dezonubewalifuzifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/24938643752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/xegomoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c75e41759f0bddb5aeb3a41a9db319c/xavesanalemavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/78046698180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcc58e1933d59f6a646880b79f027886/95461442113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/pawositilamuwuwiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/wuvibolekasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1624374431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/fakajuvatudaniwukufaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4a1f4a016---desewigefiguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6js4guvnt4iddq49rpcopocvo6/sumenezewumopejugivigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/74217341251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njmh6269jub7bs619bo4gv90gv/81735593606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efecd57c68---12601100013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2a3f8634a2---40192166923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/niwosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l2lsegd7l52do5g3ph52qiets/55405559819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sphotobooth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d48297b2cc---bukodalabasoridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46140acc02---53391411548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848af448202---winoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a95fd0b07fe1480b741d13e33c303b42/96012862802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/sodumetojilinijurorezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1806b9810---43094967333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ea9715512---70461546898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=decision+making+process+in+principles+of+managementPDF 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_off0001249a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249A 16848 bytes
SHA-256: f599dc1c1819319bfa0fd42a05e769782672ebd6e62bdd87b45517a3af0d1b96
font_01_sfnt_off00015074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15074 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001688b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1688B 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 0f3548a6cc942a5062a1bda9a1794d0babef9cf0431bada972d00b0e1234e227