Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cbe7782c08cdd6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-09 17:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 064a32c7bb2c3ea84019932ca684b065 SHA-1: a17bf99fb2267224f3eae1f5383977c2e1175120 SHA-256: 9cbe7782c08cdd6a3dbddb05c8ba047bc99127e6049d4c7ced88f96f06034bfb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, identified by the 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for phishing or malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84480vajh6stpr28m2so3rap2/82019766687.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975fc3a380cfb84671ba966efc1f9cae/65414113440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f800cc75e622ca957729177c36e52f/78040259675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d17755d7fd15d8556fc5ffa9433ff10/nipufejuvutamezojagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea2c8b79e0---99424154429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b92f3bcee---saxosijodozotezekaxaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/55174946632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab2659af22fbf141f4760821a2ca4d3a/18263456737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/98586730460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrsgazette.com/admin/images/file/luwojasifejutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de89dfcc4ae22d9b0be205b4101d50fe/38269126607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/gotomekafaleni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/xowekokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092afbc115a7---76867894901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/7194086305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11c76a7d30d48febd7209ed32b833871/56036137841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf8f202c820ac6e39e5be7cebae42aa2/kofubajozirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mi5espuif7220jch9gatst331/kesosopatuxafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/loxejogimuzatif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/75183423936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/titexugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lde0644gag0chgr5cgibi4121/gipagorunexufiravogelulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ef425a320---zediduduna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/16790560884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=phase+difference+between+conduction+current+and+displacement+currentPDF 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_off0000e2dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DD 16460 bytes
SHA-256: c78d51a8adf75ec224ed941a9c90722f6081ee32ef20fa88889989dfec87a6ce
font_01_sfnt_off00010d8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D8C 11212 bytes
SHA-256: f7bee22f31555c401eb4ba6c1df3f8b685292f953750792f04e1c800c962333f
font_02_sfnt_off0001276f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1276F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1