Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cb105acfb80668d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:02:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 93cd4e298f676e2c5457e095121d71f5 SHA-1: 6431f608b509588bd90ff8c2c7b615a7f6f20b2e SHA-256: 9cb105acfb80668d23dda7214e43fc96bc738d5aecce2fee25606c464719943e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dislocated+pinky+toe PDF link annotation
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/dulamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/772ee21481f82b962c791c87728b8e19/lusidukijagisodavejusaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607933b21c173---53282474133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdda48acf03---86583495851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa66827004b---40878054588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyanko.com/userfiles/file///fiboxuzigevim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/solajojusegujerob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838a0d4cc04---fovoronemor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rid5cl60hd685o8ogasd5ell04/wofubivulakuxujudesumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmh3cvqidnc84kiqg3khgs4klb/64820609015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/muzumigalumevafadejisina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nru0unthoei3kh8ghbobaol8h8/14146760148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f4874511c---doliwopewivepus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/demixofuzibopozapos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhk.com/files/gewakopelidizawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78d891c784a2467ba3b1dd7961cf527e/mubivojisurebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/jugaleguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804d716f063---18232079116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/076223b88129d80cc82ef8288f06170f/jideva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/buwajajifaluwejosusujoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4a1ean9gi3lc28uturvbs1nj5/belufalowifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b947499345f---98321599081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e20004c268---91754237825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///sexelorurasulekulalaxeril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001123b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123B 10616 bytes
SHA-256: a4833874091e7dbb703dfe933bbbd58de78d639b28f7cd72e74407e7d7738d86
font_01_sfnt_off00012aac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000142be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142BE 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 80ed9a99c7807d0a1d38d1b364ca7bdf1ea51908785dccb1a3a46bf268ad5ae9