Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cbced3660df7b09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:31:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 43d2de3946589c62d8875ee30966550a SHA-1: 37e4085d86ef4ba3e8241a4349554ba488bf1d03 SHA-256: 9cbced3660df7b098bf2ccc950fb701d2eface2b0175d5742c9efd9edd303c05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, functioning as a link farm. The presence of 'utm_term' in one URL suggests a potential phishing lure related to stimulus checks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=4th+stimulus+check+wednesday
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb63424a99---65171575244.pdf
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/sivinerarofen.pdf
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2db0f32f9---vufinawaxularulefi.pdf
    • https://tierrettung-in-katalonien.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gowawevojid.pdf
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822f4ca08eb---risumadoroxin.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04b25b7a27254171c48775a1356ed628/27458920909.pdf
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/69189562514.pdf
    • https://dodatkireklamowe.pl/web/uploads/files/dakikutovipif.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ec9eed07b---73723668645.pdf
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef41b9eeeb---70891272656.pdf
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/94027730002.pdf
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a343c89f989---72175135107.pdf
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/dupezozulofebedelewij.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jb15qrm1lkaffnei2a6oe9k67/filopokasejujezemumijepo.pdf
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/zepopulalolaravuwopo.pdf
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f866c354526ef88230336611609711a/busikugalu.pdf
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/kaziworalosilajisoju.pdf
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755c380345a---73792732342.pdf
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/xunigumazigesasu.pdf
    • http://kzlo.pl/fotki/fotki/file/kakadiduvuxaf.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97c3a3d1a2---54094990367.pdf
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/18810189034.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f894.bin
90fac020d90c9435e8992b3985e07abe37d9ffedb3c46c667eaa9673d56aec01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF894 17364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000125c3.bin
1db563e65b318f2dde85ee30adb6354a5139891a9d5945f6005c44c891d985df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125C3 10788 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e8c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E8C 16792 bytes