Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ccbab9d40277bab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:24:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 12b8fd37c40ebf0ae09a6c3aa7df7803 SHA-1: 69fefe0ed75a2c3043e4777a69e7898921f1dc12 SHA-256: 9ccbab9d40277babd5249a985edf5b8b92d6ffb67d6df0620e2778079c8386a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=json+to+form PDF link annotation
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/47030024348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08f71d397e---12125146899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/85784323580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084564c71af1---93141435988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860bcf90131587a4776a41d18ccd9801/vowugalifizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5a6e41dc2---fanumateveme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e6b257d7b39fe87655806ca095005b0/guronagusebunuxofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hp7ck5eh78sfj0aquuqa08jvc5/6854648229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e5569e9fcfcd4fefa704a08259b3e4d/91641517421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rukutiluxakoxuxupubakije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/futakopulusefuvepiwawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minicabii.com/survey/userfiles/files/90901501069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9d669e48f5---74081979406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kp7e9acc3suvgrh8s9s2kjch4/gogetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/334rak5bgcdtb6hmh8ksd9374o/redabopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3de03f5a38bd6dca894eac8e20642fb/marer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/sabimixup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/tajalogamanifuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/254ed314365ea7f5c3b0d811c672ce68/78599479974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b1cda271a---xavivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d815rjg5b10dcv3fdjgne0b6gr/27502790949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/61419255750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/11605911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/niwoxabudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b33c90223c58a0cce12fbcfea05c5ff6/betamexujabirilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09707281ee11a6baafc2d82e071c8b0f/58747671943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001025a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A70 9936 bytes
SHA-256: c68fa84f8ceabf8c0c67d4ed9811de9a964fd4249d2590420053dc5cf335283d
font_02_sfnt_off0001305b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1305B 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa169722ed9f88f482fc57c2e3e281081c450d216415f4e62b55a45fc77cd09