Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ced7e7e6babb66f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:13:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c7d54818db81e2c7825a33540f759d58 SHA-1: 7f553a8158bb34b90b39cddf3c9f52be549984a3 SHA-256: 9ced7e7e6babb66fbd083a074fa075bfc298d2d604c46982b1bf910bb35d795a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, identified by heuristics as a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for phishing or further malware delivery. The embedded URLs point to various domains hosting PDF files, suggesting a distribution network.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hikeks7neu8q4saqem1825pkk9/18004184976.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gloria-eurex.com/images/blog//file/nasukulane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737f1f39ea6---bilero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/puximugerirapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqcq3eoud71gd151bs6oqeigk4/kebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efdc0cd6ff---vugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/90239115418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c95a865e53213e12aa69ff197d8da617/wafanikidofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f57968cf97---1776700070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4ruini1f95tfupuhv5jbmm9j4/fitopafejovuleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be6d2a78a6a---40654952192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e3ff2a3c401acbeebdf30e44a89362a/ximavikopegifebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b79fab8bd7e62f7128778537b049a9/sibelatigibupafojazaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8uqe35563p717hhvn2e3s9khn/xasalaruvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f99ea7c393a11bb772af25a9fbaef47/61200980668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishor-uvk.com/uploads/files/difid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/piwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/55866385222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4825b72d2---66090020789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/58852828614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3ricq7hr572lc3etrmdtm75l7/75969513845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzakenefusuweriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopcuhaiphong.vn/upload/files/zetexeganunenozuvozewabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12c408aee2---povitotixamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84f602b8c388fca37a61f3e86228f7c5/dadedetokedebilikelorutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=family+tree+worksheet+for+grade+3PDF 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_off0000d8e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E1 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 68013fdcdd1686a48b1cbd69388057c96700c67146c45d1a8e5e651e789475bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C6 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 0bd791d855a74d803f2cf49c23e630c07809ef31cdd957fbbf84f1478fbf7e4a
font_02_sfnt_off00011f49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1