Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cb54468d409856e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 11f358726cf6c5a1418e03976ebac354 SHA-1: dfdead64771ea8321bf81eff76e484a556db1dbe SHA-256: 9cb54468d409856e1c0230833b561a21fa29a075391ed7f87a7eb34676f6c437
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhl246s98hd83v3e71ibap7ek2/88910089540.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/49430972764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/zuxigelodibatuwepafuwodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lipavex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/26260656635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthocarecentroortopedico.it/userfiles/files/86329146688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adaa268972---79819565838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a069f92512c32535635abc4abf4ec65d/guzumiloviwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a64b783a9a---78382957493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke9aj7eriog60evi5ttcts5ot3/30564625411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dcc1d9eab0dbce0b5c0955186e53fda/dagefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d108086912ee160e5da344487f47b60/96816793809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/53920139206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ff57ee529---91194661651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df6cc0439a9bba55fa1252b42981ac87/47581987373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijacr.net/assets_admin/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/tirunitelesatiladogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/91756573657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steinemann-ag.ru/pafojovisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/88420479344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28281437221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pchs1967.com/clients/b/b3/b38b0c0be7ceca4b309dcb684d78a7c5/File/2579255251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/80838698907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83511935673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=muslim+family+law+amendment+2015+pdfPDF 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_off000100b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000118c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C4 17512 bytes
SHA-256: c3a7dab70c52644972941c1ff5f5fc62fa7824da1ee7cb65b81383cbc9eaab3c
font_02_sfnt_off000145d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D9 11160 bytes
SHA-256: f11c82d6a18b17587cb66b4f275a378186a8c6723e3f607546ce7ca93f0af4d0

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