Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cef73fa9cea4485…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:29:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 251d31fe454c9c400245adff8ae1afe3 SHA-1: 8d85dbad9fb335855b47b632dfa9b795f938227a SHA-256: 9cef73fa9cea44858ac6d1d9526844a67b7cb17c643f351b4a4e2d408e24166b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+make+the+color+blue+with+paint PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2249277196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cu6ud00o8272ue3ma61r9r9ld7/4306215000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102fb87cbd84---62266649495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29eb066e2048ad5256d0906de05e29e2/96156502924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/67317587757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aplhtg6p9kpoum9eqiber4gphi/kevoseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/65675155668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebc1d2b52c---kizonexogubisofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///27673736518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/65536597381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b52b017ccd---tilowemefibewukaxavugomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecniagua.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/zosilanazenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705cc9e5a1c---64475089256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nieruchomosci-swidnica.pl/userfiles/file/vanigelula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gf29s7bhvle2sckhsi9a6r5n62/gikanamirudajajivelokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienchidan.org/uploads/files/56099612158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e1b9713e5---93132412421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090540f59987---paxaderunonupomelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/14193524758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b95f8a8362cfe12841efe8614243d97e/90120998785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/6460432537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20089bc7956eff9ae48d603a9b3ee682/gegenoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210808181803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/ledevu.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_off0000ee25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE25 11132 bytes
SHA-256: c4af48f7cc61207792f179f6939f601f13966fbb3ee1e9f4a962971cb8ca2d98
font_01_sfnt_off000107b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B1 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 6c36547cd11b273a930ab3afed0d9e6623cb97bd63ded300977779852d4e6853
font_02_sfnt_off000133d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1