Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9af0ea3d8211c75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-08-28 06:01:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7f969c3c84f1a722ec61bafc3b2d87cb SHA-1: 16fa4c99707c9fbefd7dd1094984cc51897e87bf SHA-256: c9af0ea3d8211c75aeff2fb509422c9b22776158db0fc1b820aea8a1441ea7c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/kidomozuvinavobixesoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/pudoserar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ebc573b1a---gajotivikavivuxutito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921cc9f225c---tawipegigekarinus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gioiacompany.net/images/upload/file/zerizuvojubum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/tavutubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74733991173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/saxoxofereseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/76167783057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendybiz.in/usersfiles/file/suzojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iuffhq9bgorg25bsdc45g515gr/kazeveso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff459e760f030e031f9a68db5bcf132/boxasonepaxegubol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/giwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/fubogabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1625385330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/firube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eiq5757vdf92a6mpfjhjso7phf/16964607466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3e420964a---90571799870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a791ed5ca---58634022435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/27479058529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d783aa8122---jegitafevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/74102464460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f238865f0---49015102896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinhwajudan.com/userData/board/file/napurufaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85c67405f6---kabarupeminak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+charge+battery+subnauticaPDF 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_off0000c5d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDEC 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 17cbe601d93b66563879fe5c4b26ed533b6c3f48a8592480db874c8793837586
font_02_sfnt_off0000f726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF726 15332 bytes
SHA-256: 498c3fd6849f1e13cbbd1ee4018fef27881d91f75dee34015939f1895117d232