Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cc608c817dd47f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 53b2cc22eecf29272162f3e2ab9abab1 SHA-1: d996c68acd97ea8ad307efd58aa763a23abd1df6 SHA-256: 9cc608c817dd47f7bddc3a95e957c3fb7c2135edf0829dc87c22d4dba527877b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a link farm is sufficient evidence of a malicious attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/48317603412.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a05dd581157ea79264c2286b120701ec/zefiwasobenumeso.pdf
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-13/20210513225842366829.pdf
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076375b2dfe9---wunefovosuserukuw.pdf
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c5538070b---16459292206.pdf
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jh0ls9i05rsjoqna2vpp701tb5/19057281896.pdf
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/47108219625.pdf
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/043f0068aa83051e0972657a89637640/33724788106.pdf
    • https://ivaco.it/file/nenesezokusitiguteduvela.pdf
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6878sb8msgmtnr59e06267m5c/77412577254.pdf
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d5c484c26fad835486dd11fadb6e44d/kejabotajixexalepidoz.pdf
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/76979299140.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9933bb12eedd0bc270aa2d5e00ecc57/tuzobedubivubuforatez.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a32baaa82e---48428122878.pdf
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f38b9e906---25851240173.pdf
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/gumona.pdf
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42007a7c81a70cf8333b51db7eaf1e17/kuwojubadux.pdf
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adaf3e9d18b64241497d310a6184d296/4291867993.pdf
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e977f9bf9790accecd16c4d2614b9139/sogivebinimivuvusomoxan.pdf
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmp5q674l01iu74dhtdb6gbuds/nukovebegotupivedemola.pdf
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085816242234---posijanebawubiloz.pdf
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae2c089931---86961784998.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=abcd+writing+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_off0000eb60.bin
3b85c85990ad2d8a2698346c8b488245454d194b6f277c24ca70e5f728c1e2f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB60 17520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011864.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11864 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001307b.bin
104bb4ac14f1e2ae07eef8ad67818264a1477ab5f4d8834fe550fa08e8a23088
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1307B 10376 bytes