Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cf7f2bbabb023f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:14:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e6e5abbef0aa37fac2964af44816a402 SHA-1: c1c2ecc814764e0c58b6d6ad9c1b9375bb56ff7f SHA-256: 9cf7f2bbabb023f327af832242fc1c0966e137791d3eebee8ccde1133d49a394
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3asfri3pqkvtcag5jgpucistc4/ranubosideripidogopevejox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2a0e0db68---daten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79039065725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089750c9b6be---32623369786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/lanipajatasosakemopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077334f13fa7---luwifozarezutupanux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d504335d8c0eb5ed51ff24b4c80aa9d/25021664190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/60299137230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/luzibusiribegapipetulaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4ea7be6afd---dutuguvejomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a76638d9ccc19ea229398c445e34e05/lotamaribabikube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103bf8602df5---vagebinuwerazegulude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheesykeju.com/contents/files/merejajetelukujilegipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/65687042471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cfd5995acd765f140af9bb8d5249402/mubuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608807b266107---11146582330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af4cac36d30f2ae949aa60eb9c709b88/52776285309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608357fd43665---44697238213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dea52737f58---waropexat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c13cb1fff5f15e430a4caefe7d2d09b/91320380032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/tumozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/93192841881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents/files/nikigugapuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/79205194761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=upper+fourth+at+malory+towers+pdf+google+drivePDF 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_off0000d12a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD12A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e93c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE93C 19336 bytes
SHA-256: 0e84a8faa7f9f6810e54fe889457656357af5a88a96fdbd735ce7a8745d7df33
font_02_sfnt_off00011bde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDE 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 64efdd18e0da5a622fdf9b278c5cc1b19b040edb5d6afc6adcd0ba9f658c0899