Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cc479be5b95abc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-08-15 00:25:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 73e18feefa12d9f1fa6d18b45924e0c2 SHA-1: ce0ee2d45afaf3aa559202a673de78e4d9349504 SHA-256: 9cc479be5b95abc4e9fa4a3fe1458b7876c6717e10f395307af794d37c558d05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the use of disposable hosting for these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/81587152571.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30bf66140e---62974903973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/sexasabedexul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea78e77539a1987c088165ecdf900655/41902917460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24926298159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1360a0227c4c53c083cc693f11f5dc23/nebodanojoluwulif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/wuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ping-property.com/user_img/files/33545666112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaluladevadodimegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/kilobiwewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a14f040a66732e6159cde27b7750aeb3/bazitevige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8436a6595---36716336710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/tarexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca1c1364cd2116b304c81fcde39f985e/904947395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29506467303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a12e5e0f3a0373e1ab6b56e3a71d9fbd/40504180789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/98390754072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kmkmekanik.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nasola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab3de5fb88cbb3e236afbcfdc9eebf78/7390758759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/ganidofofobutuguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41c926624bef5bfc726074e26a27c5da/56960458485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/88177051199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07149ab0c2---8949722463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c532be1b30e---foxugosateletos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/52529014866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1eb28e128f---83634578823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+your+own+ecological+footprintPDF 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_off0000e23f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23F 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 34562a2ddabac8b69b36ccf87053c26e33b11eabe7cad983dc32cbbe9b5e09da
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3B 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 0c44bebe3ee8296ab2b83c403bf60c0fd3ab79b567272852ab9142af40da37a6
font_02_sfnt_off00012806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12806 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1