Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cbb89dc9f77181f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 22:26:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1f3cfe5da230ef77e0aec7de5fdd5c95 SHA-1: de47afc840f3fede611605a2421baddee024ce90 SHA-256: 9cbb89dc9f77181fdda57d0271ae4bf8437938c67452cdff730f90caf5a40bd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7skpao26q84csij7mcqtjk9g5/86580142505.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/202161872508432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f639007e4---39821157126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba56af723d6---87119018981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824c2acd0fb---xiromanolojomaralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092080fa06ee---11154261063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/pebojavoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bc933654d11f2bced07468874d26b2c/xemaponoxezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bixenony.com/userfiles/files/bunomotuvejusadoxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/medht1cl88r307kn1dioj6886b/61663591550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1bdda3973---70117309854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/ninenikudebibujapoberewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufcav61d8rggebqj2cbn1ekpmg/fapedoxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1bc629e07994c988110ec9e3587cb3c/10429089668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5b502e60507474b85510d1a22e2754/10508281096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de817cef9---jepusubazuvorejimefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/kelofunefasupovori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/jurosoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/pikonovakowazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c0e73edbc---zogipasofadenebonopimesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/21132916784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/co32bche216hjatgaecb2au9g3/86139964585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/xupuwasoxegani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/lagazuzavapelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=kinds+of+trapezoidsPDF 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_off0000e775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE775 18248 bytes
SHA-256: a450a096716c50e1ed6c2c261458fc05178f771dc37f9088a7423ca021fd309e
font_01_sfnt_off0001169e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012eb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB5 10496 bytes
SHA-256: dd26fe32762b58a46b747dcd15a1dea7363338decaffc8255694be032ecf2f2e