Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cf05950ce0e00f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:49:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f5a0af8157bb8321334351aa22cad52e SHA-1: 08ef6adad3680d91f8d50a172aa5277b1ac7e0b1 SHA-256: 9cf05950ce0e00f243737f3d2f75c0fb0776b65f93ba0fa14edb9dc1209f70f0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of 'cmd/56405122035.pdf' in the document text hints at potential command execution or a lure related to system commands.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=andragogy+and+pedagogy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/96904711463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/76321857701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s8pd2n8jhomieoh18d1sfokcf/fexevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea9c6119d2---53163811335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rk3phgf3nuhhs5fu7aqbn1826/vilukokewigisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3531e1017196e199ae39a3677930c11f/13876056180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67c18951c55307e37db6e37d5d507633/ridava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71ef710155138262baff5bb40a289f9f/pebobagafugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31105993145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbbeb281f64b42a83493342f12805560/xopifesesejuxugexugimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ee5f127e6---9808094947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/64194685620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/81387431390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7skm61j45menok63ggsg7aa0g/wagesapezapifinajumezaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noelex22.org/userfiles/file/jeganofarisuvavijina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/99592783953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad4obvdno2scp4he3tv4ms4n6/90293705665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k7sjpd7b7tl40rub0h4ngocmd/56405122035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhlptlb0uco65crj3sb73b3k7q/vepezavigigewelojevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96291136a21a8348cc5618376d6833ec/guwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minlinart.com/archive/upload/files/kaduneribem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfect-aerosol.eu/userfiles/file/51699852046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/67203077691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geraldinekilkelly.ie/zuxipimonazobisujiwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-contenIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • 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_off0000bd1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD1F 15424 bytes
SHA-256: f64b5d3cd57201326b7973b3934e84e56f7e59a2c267c6029198316b61cd7c44
font_01_sfnt_off0000e452.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE452 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC69 10364 bytes
SHA-256: a3ed780d14e90d955d3794825695ea29cc55e5bec3b4f313a81c9065129ab00c