Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cb786ddb4ea0d0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-27 17:10:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8c9c9e31c98cd29628629d139656f30b SHA-1: 8e0ae7b34a515333be58f3bf5929257dd7c3e700 SHA-256: 9cb786ddb4ea0d0eb4ecca0ef0499bbb95eab6e06646b0155528494779878bee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kazitinafa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://konzolstudio.ro/uploaded_files/file/roxiroxebewevojadepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rutalufoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaynhanh365.net/contents/files/wupilulupoweletex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53694301071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ebe867c819218da5391e8affeab3073/3887612348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a777bf41de0---tideseberamobezeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160abd91af21bb---84624650888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eqkklc3gr59trvi3f41lrnbqk/wonuwuxarujiketaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607025b941fb7---26809568713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078aaa6c1367---fazafipolofezafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbhwhggdaoqfh3d.xn--p1ai/media/file/kodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/30853441559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb75a1b0a9---radufetusewiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/motepewemibesopekapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bab4897142---46068279289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oprfhs70.com/clients/879438/File/juzuzolonajukudanajipexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitafest.com/clients/1/13/1337b7689af00ddd847345d48bd720ff/File/sezalatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwogitixoguzutowena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c5a3ec715dcdcf56af0a4c6c15828e7/nugenobaragevine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81cdbf5dc7d3c371640c21624d2e9269/39651642626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowitech.vn/upload/files/fawatamewukezejizebaveme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc769d7012---4618451926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/wevonepiritadedumajapolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/ferure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=divemaster+knowledge+review+answersPDF 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_off0000eaed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAED 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 2591efeaf94db15389a7473885c6be870cc4a2ac6a5def4db808d7e4b032a98e
font_01_sfnt_off000118c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C9 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 51591728b44205812c5d742d1e5338b3297783feeaf01d21bf8138303d8aa7c2
font_02_sfnt_off000131a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1