Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dbbcec0b1a7d88d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-27 21:29:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: af7e6562771d8f966175421565539edb SHA-1: 8f11d5ae26b65086fc074dac3b115fb16fc5e744 SHA-256: 9dbbcec0b1a7d88d165e99ec253dd3c66192940e356b08cb061b1e87eb275223
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a lure to external, potentially malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741e96523770b5ac44c1010201362495/8616128408.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/fefakexopurotisugoraxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa5fd9dbacea7959e1872886613d6050/jutevawowedegosupinuroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/fozemomopevulozefuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torgoborud.org/images/file/41123082953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6312365e2e---9589910644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/vesipozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35079ac292f1e57f3a8a39a2a8f487bf/98594568547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmmqarhamtqrp1o19qd61aro15/92594929145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0417303413---30533589751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743446d10f0---lapadijariwitafare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910a2b9787d---54314076643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4069703a13e52ec7d1beff77d17c369/jonenariwuzugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/liguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/20348523804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paseppe.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sowuxokumoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juranoxojupofubefaxigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/rerokubudajagulepukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/davisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608453e4af3c1---78535933140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://concurs-euclid.ro/upload/fck/55957084708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/44757304738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/gukudenanopisumufivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2c3f3d139---dofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=right+next+to+you+meaningPDF 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_off0000f643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF643 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E5A 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 75cd9fcbad0b01fb058d9d16f8f27e3fe00f9d9471e34448032385938b7f5534
font_02_sfnt_off0001266a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266A 16920 bytes
SHA-256: b3e408da4d9187732a1e5993ba8a4340cf85f6aecaeca85df41a57c2e2e9f247