Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fc48cc041ab937d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 12:57:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a9dcff03dc3b0854b13145755550831f SHA-1: 9caed1b61c6b9d42b787424e8bbda313dcc89ce6 SHA-256: 9fc48cc041ab937daefb4ec1a08a0e4a5f97d2735e68c404da1f95db576bedb2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document's structure and embedded URLs are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9579f31771---30309846862.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0facc5568---bazok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/92827247599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/63317712357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/ligor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/94926994281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00f89186b46cef7203b88b17aa092ba8/sirexenodukawanaxumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbq4n5g4jlho03f49v1ot3vj8a/26937333557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091fc701ab66---jelopupepirukebelepulod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ea9094656---28428763113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/51233250696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/79431850737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc4898f435---52327217535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/97160034926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ml6glfhkmh4vo3rp7abtshh192/55661203874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/1606010501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/bevujona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/45732644404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/17787545753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/kopitubira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb60co8stod1kldcdpuojvv3sd/7450971584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaeocs.com/clients/c/c7/c75ed17bfa54634cfc1039f1b599a7e7/File/11528625783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793c506db03---46547408882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a822149ea4---samiralubage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/tuwavefomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e9b02f7aa---4743479966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=check+string+empty+phpPDF 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_off0000def0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF0 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 00e0f110530f89efa76daf02a3b3060578ea0b499ae736b8fcd4b2987e71015f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF777 17984 bytes
SHA-256: e71e2d7c0f3719966f0716179b09b4f439ab4454459fa435ba116f11097424c3
font_02_sfnt_off00012768.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12768 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1