Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cc90dd1df05e4eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:27:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 57dfb7a424724b446224905894ea32f8 SHA-1: b7120064ea2e082450d8bd64c9301f4b363b5861 SHA-256: 9cc90dd1df05e4eb588919170793b2054fad964fadb60217b9dc4965bf637f14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links and the high confidence detection indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/77004720364.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b319249b827---sisalatadasajamudawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/wizezegubepoxuzuzofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/769e604353fc3c843b5a31a1ef9c5c2a/loxufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92436da5f---50691527056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pascalparrot.com/uploads/assets/file/nojejojagamifeleda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovhuibr23nogcgk3js5s9gdrcr/temikivexesedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/26984271012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truonggiangcompany.com/userfiles/file/lakotokepegupirarufizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/34236636698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/ruxanivizusiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b53c4c2a605d262f1887c01bd5acc297/riruwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a8714c1c3efda2d3cdfb12cfaade4a5/kagajuwodikapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/sekoded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5dd993e78f---53884695263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11923306529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dges.in/userfiles/file/85958295507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27a9f1fc76---3656067865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tvo3fs7kjdgthe3o5suvljhh8c/83357402639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3b6310416888dc6775de4345bdc5d52/42138728935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-2/20210802194832904685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelesherrinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xigitugunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmountvernon.com/uploads/files/limafudofexoxatatasaxumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35ca7ddc49---60602236343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e407cfbe88bdd2c910446f050b7793dc/jojenoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608534e5547d9---zonobuxupoxopomubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=catalogo+prysmian+baja+tension+2018+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_off0000d204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD204 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1B 11760 bytes
SHA-256: 6397e18b2d4c33982ec189877aeb15f209415797ee6bac5d23d5b4f776a864a8
font_02_sfnt_off000105e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E0 16680 bytes
SHA-256: 336265572504027f28e42931545451b495e80791dab8f2260b997b5199d15b6b