Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cd6a4bb8ee2be7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:44:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 16a5a8cdda2ec77a601f2e11e925f7a0 SHA-1: 386a0b455483c8cc729c27285ee6d1a498028d86 SHA-256: 9cd6a4bb8ee2be7c021c449efbe7bbbb0701fcdffc166bcb6dc8160b9243739d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a second-stage payload via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/zomewus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yaslibakicisi.net/userfiles/file/xozomeladovimevoruvelunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/36229197929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28d9036fa7---71529424917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d619b5e89ccee6c680f3c3b4d21c00c1/jivogobemigazomonebuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/laziwagigukezavaxixibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/37969554102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e6c527fde---59497590974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt2mmlgr0qphpgd2jp1skrq0up/bidegetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/54086874703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/50087622005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d2256543d---44697907020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c010543945---xufeduruvoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f71949efd83032ff1226b32e8e68eb3/bedelojosikesari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/3462003850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ef3d614b2---vimuzizobanoganijerulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oralrem.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50215834825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3h5jfjlns8ekdrn5srt8ddqr3t/livezozisadakozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120db288ca75---87639565510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f95145396---kuxipufekegavefafirutami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.ph/app/webroot/img/files/28439045158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herbwaterthailand.com/userfiles/files/52304162726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/29728479773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=grading+of+edema+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_off0000d1b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CD 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 51a8a18bd5b5f801a348de116448f33cdb3f46b08d6aebd7ecddc3927e19ec13
font_02_sfnt_off0001019a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019A 18124 bytes
SHA-256: 03f8142ef5414ad6ae18b5c7841b98632593280b71fe153e35dfc1c65f876fc2