Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cd21e643aa0f042…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.3 KB Created: 2021-07-09 00:42:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 23a4cd4b8a002c820337f04b3f940962 SHA-1: f9536aecf8edda478456b22931b6e08a663ba8dd SHA-256: 9cd21e643aa0f0421668b88b35d1b16e71ef16e8d8490a3f1f9521f7a8e6d08f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9790

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=routing+and+switching+essentials+chapter+2+exam PDF link annotation
    • https://strategieb2b.com/userfiles/file/waramudovasiresusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/32128239112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948a0f37489---dumolimozolijifomuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/39231979277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/xogulesipanorujemajipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mr7lt1u0vrla9p0j8mk8ci94hv/daxekenibovowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3dc419ff1dce64064b43a5150e4b535/rogunixegewiren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/60092496303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbb749776f---kegipabexave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/luroraxogazozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tramtronbetong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/65621802614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/51953004958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210521213054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d27dc3b82cb249ca75738456a8b535ce/xowomavinovegixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3004d46018293bed79e52623614b44e7/dowivutisuvaxezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f73cdb221a---23127199841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pehddpfl9aokdnjr1i3sdfdjap/288525216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dostavkaturov.ru/files/file/65697974352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/kulewipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f34480fc2---14757350954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b5024eabcfe8f5d4eba8cec99d9ba0b/dikupuzirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playfromhome.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/39699113191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a208b2e6eeacac83e60c5913626dd63/96988320267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb4f1d827c---92348551537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609075a776bf5---dobamutopagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/fopab.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_off00012cba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CBA 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 338e08ba23fe5c7df919e7ec53855fe4f7242c38c6e0a3a93757ff0b4ebcf448
font_01_sfnt_off00015897.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15897 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000170ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x170AE 11416 bytes
SHA-256: 390be3a488b9a3dd89882f395337253349a8c2f2117c57b2be9da5d3f9d3ba3a