Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cc52e0dd20cf92f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:05:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 03aa155db8e961bb2ef180532a806b26 SHA-1: 18799f04f34964098ee8ce2ddb57af83bc04e7eb SHA-256: 9cc52e0dd20cf92fc0374bebe10cfac8be0ea581cbd08f5993fc0a69f5ceeb6e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and the use of compromised CMS upload storage further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1627586307.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ba977d18b7c3327bf74b35f9a0ca85a/fifokakuvawelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unifor975.ca/userfiles/file/3661511710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/84660045730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec3519745b---43207198277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/satejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/pisepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cu-hinothai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27099639756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55889048634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e58363e54cbacf0981ef3e74058b504a/82222333156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizesblokk.hu/files/file/tisijodusepofivifokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e10d72b0e---jubimebepileregenavixaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff68.com/clients/71184/File/girosexelezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff00a62fc1---budalobagajudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bfa405fea---detij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/josemerewujazuzodinej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nibrasimansch.com/userfiles/files/2523185433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612197f0de0ed---tufovimevezekara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a152d4b517e---figuwokigaxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shhs69reunions.com/clients/e/e9/e92da0bc0099326815942f81a5c18dfc/File/43510026255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1rec38qsag1smkjogbv62ivat/12673705999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9636e6c2eb8be62da30e44572a41e4/bipuwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eebdeb4b9---najigugudozixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=el+filibusterismo+analysis+pdfPDF 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_off0000f316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF316 19104 bytes
SHA-256: 84d9118fb5e4772927b103d63d772ed07610d8d54f80e9f9aaf79303ed6b5f2a
font_01_sfnt_off0001249c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013cb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CB3 10996 bytes
SHA-256: ecab87869f5f43f20d2aaf5551da821cc38120c271c753efd9134a95e82f82dc