Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c9cf104d0aac1d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-02 21:16:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0d1ef3a0ab66be8929688995e155f333 SHA-1: cc584ab2f551fe61b5f095c121d90f675f61b0ba SHA-256: 9c9cf104d0aac1d3e3c9518e7526347fb1d6053ecca5190caa7e1c4461956149
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host PDF files. These PDFs likely serve as lures to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e965190a50---118517212.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e8e96b633---xisulefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i75lmatq601jtevfldsa2uvh33/ritivapapixowikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd5ca2e326b84fbc811f37d3537bc80e/ganelumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/46301237271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/zugevewedobawuluxanadij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/pijezijovalesotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4130a88867---ganesadupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/28932443883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/42321029897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilmercatinosottocasa.com/file/55170736224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a7d7bdbaabaf7dee7b38ee61ea1e6fd/fibawakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18fc0a79d4b3ec864769112a01598396/27032584300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/89838086760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bdfc693e4---jaxevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellissi.org/userfiles/files/vegizikepabovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095a05c634c6---43819980032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/47818854993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607623dfc8042---70685041076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e969b0033---83542493513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/xigurujobisinix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210627_133327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/xutufivatusekakafejojaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8f3c9e620---19117666073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/215ef1ffe670672593a1ecf4505894ad/jijoxuvatiniwosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+monkey+king+3+hindi+dubbed+filmyzilla+xyzPDF 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_off0000effe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10815 11176 bytes
SHA-256: c088f2349e0e03cf55a3988daf8ebadb220ca60a6769b9edc163d2f3779ea611
font_02_sfnt_off000121e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121E0 16944 bytes
SHA-256: 173bed2f873c227804e5346d216bc5e825dc956769f6b09e986bd47a0ac68fb9