Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cbcd0753c1e06d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 01:04:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0bff01662b96786992c2c37d17720bc8 SHA-1: af5905a0841484794e73fe8d031dbe815c6daba9 SHA-256: 9cbcd0753c1e06d32d562b6d65a39b3b4a55034736228451f58a7f3aedd86680
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vitikixepilimedatim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610eb86b025aa---sakosibasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/48553166482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piataafacerilor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/98978395733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1dfd6c348---13975779250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d930d5380fcd37fc07dc5230db124585/fezumavexataboruxoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/85567741505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e879bbd58f---77921515635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ktagla8551h4j7s3nftskampm/gifunib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/98506389536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/61790083218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/64536623253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/30127507326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/kegemonapotosegadarawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df79417560bd24c9a57ed3d2fb009cf/32167853898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6a0c68003---45672902797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/41472838847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/77840152202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hr75ld4t4sffpfv048bjmkeqfg/rufejoludupiziwure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c54a7392298---fujaxamovatezituvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chauphongasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjgigiq2rgf4ogu3nc2322nidj/kubitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtylek.pl/Upload/file/10457183361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b16e0b41ece69972e8354f5bef8d623/30296958874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=challenge+jigsaw+manualPDF 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_off000105c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C4 18608 bytes
SHA-256: cea7c53397969e6c297c5e9c33a46f2aefd3dd829c3f3f9e7939280a957c9d38
font_01_sfnt_off000136d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136D7 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 73aa1e522e4d841af43a6e3d8ffb554be486392d5bf410d5d74c204e1a8ecdc8
font_02_sfnt_off00014ecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14ECD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1