Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9577f264b22bbe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 18:28:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 74a617e0010553a13d20f355ce8cfb93 SHA-1: 3b475240244aba69027e0118941e99ce4258263f SHA-256: c9577f264b22bbe665ca3e8718c48e4351b34b1c47da46b78f8307cb1004dc2d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'QR-code redirect lure' heuristic indicate a strong intent to direct users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320ef63282b---xasarotopuwodomebinu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/tokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajl.net/img/file/20219502348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pactforfamilies.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monajiridipigevijupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alles-vom-schreiner.de/userfiles/file/17777050223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/99196659711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekhoron21.mn/uploads/files/zujogovutekapijuxufili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://checopharma.com/upload/files/18564551560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84207037422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/kirexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210909033725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/20219551622656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecontinues.ru/images/files/naxonizututejufidixovovir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ser-buk.com/userfiles/file/kasoxanufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungototuanphat.com/img-tvdl/files/luwasumujulonogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/64548769291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimatyzacjaradom.pl/userfiles/file/lifugudasusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucg-eg.com/userfiles/file/62013920140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crimesla.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/foborupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134cb2edc985---kexusedurukiselozuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tabuzudatibejudebetajuded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://restaurant-kamkok.fr/img/Data/file/54015459497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympicthesportshop.in/uploads/10159258808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378d388dd4f---26557830022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enjoyvaltellina.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84547708997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=papa%27s+cupcakeria+to+go+unblockedPDF link annotation
    • https://www.rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dakotidakipinovirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b5b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5B7 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 9fde18346ca2c2238c749c8dbc2f3ae1cfddd1d7652d67d1823ebb6eae8011ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e74e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74E 16384 bytes
SHA-256: 8bf5fe03602fedb8d28c7016b283e163c3a3073d91159108ab7a47d00df1ab56