Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dcb8331b5497a60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:03:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c39dd6e8ca584781450697b5b22e19ac SHA-1: 7f1f414b4fe65ab428931b1c0b40182d9313c002 SHA-256: 9dcb8331b5497a603e5f0c76fd8dc012ed9e4909ef28907f0d2a28b1e09e0c96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose appears to be to distribute malicious content or engage in phishing by leveraging these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac72f15032f---vidazowib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dwitunggaljaya.com/sitefiles/file/31400983970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/tosilawamuzanaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/gisoxasexabotuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/13680214686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4b2e28015d5c0d9a191b42cfde3b920/zixidilajuguniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjur3ija25aa2sui3ihkqamkaf/83877211556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longhornrings.com/clients/0/08/08da48574b41509ac7bedcf2500dc652/File/sivexonafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60816036308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/75648969423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/tubawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/15649123106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuhuonglacquer.com/uploads/news_file/195477105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitvietnamcambodge.com/hinhanh/file/mibijiwufiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/tajeluzukumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/woritefinibatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/lomubozazugulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twgo8.com/uploads/base/files/202108310912232455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nedavebedesikitusibosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095af5513464---gizekexujomubunilalemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9fa27c818---35041802214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrdnlfhg75f7jc08sak4bl697s/79178207771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58c76539c67ba98dd3ab1a4d271e3d9f/godimobivoxinukagufumafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/71873909260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6a1a4ae6e02d3c525db441340fa30a0/kefib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9keilauj02vg69akfs7c8p0b2v/rogarijavelodukurota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=strength+of+materials+interview+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000dc95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC95 11420 bytes
SHA-256: 96601fc05a963f7b1541cea8bc5cf4abc14cfc97d31270f83ac6284b32b251ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D3 17452 bytes
SHA-256: b6b15e5061a0712ca6e92fe744011a377468b206a35eb7fab7dc7b9988b6314a
font_02_sfnt_off000123ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1