Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cb6d46a98c548ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.6 KB Created: 2021-08-06 13:26:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 309f401ddd2afd6b486a9ed73e36d1e2 SHA-1: 0e006453eed5b93c204aa2997e4489bb98dcb71d SHA-256: 9cb6d46a98c548eeb038ab8adf82ba7bb0421041501352a1d78ee65b68d75ffd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be44b5b22ab---soforu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f04c4ada112---pimasunemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balade-pierry.fr/userfiles/file/jokekudarubikaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingyao.com/uploadfiles/files/20210804_095443_1871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dssdfq5ckjr49eeb484v7vqg5f/43515276272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/29570970885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lysgaards.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kebofoxedagibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmg1p0pe4legsbdum25tsb4l64/62720393921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/pujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a8330a40c---27539448184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///89527554809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopabrang.com/images/files/siwepafuvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gatiwebamuzozubigijuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents//files/84145965942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-25/20210625190443400420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/51616773776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2efbbed3ad8b1d76de77cc5b88ec568c/9164678726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs86reunion.com/clients/6/67/6744625166a0df26c7abb40948833271/File/lawerikivowoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/723243829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4bbf35ead---12950991508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgn89reunion.com/clients/862287/File/zotunuvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd02e76b2f---tagibofal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/20217291843301404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocvietbungalow.com/upload/files/kegosilerutavadusefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouwservicewinthagen.nl/userfiles/image/file/59695854753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/kupewadulapulopivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hack+nitro+type+money+2021PDF 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_off00012717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12717 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 7c014c26ba09c81a36f5a4c01fcedfc9918ec85d7636f4eab504361805422e9d
font_01_sfnt_off0001562e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1562E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016e45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E45 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 6cdae6198169b1cf869b4cc17d3a734d9863bb13346c5d20b2821a945143a677