Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9b829cdc46bc610…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:30:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 635b977e6ce60196f80f9eb02837ea71 SHA-1: a3fbd924e906f3b686d19fa864ddf6e5498b9457 SHA-256: c9b829cdc46bc6105040a2d089faa720154c7253790ca1f7c45824ac035fd22a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host and distribute malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://ancheng-medical.com/uploadfile/files/lewerenogijuzabifo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29f96a7e88e682d2b1b86fc6a5af446e/pareteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenkenmoshi.info/images/files/file/62118132617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37ad45eed5---44638567189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truonggiangcompany.com/userfiles/file/47368324405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/peketuraxuxatapidukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c20f2d6b3e---dajixomupodib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096970e7752e---jogukewumolemisodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607744530de55---mibojipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htddienstverlening.nl/userfiles/file/pewibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghq2jpedu2voinq64s53ovj8q1/napolepetebisavulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/51963690735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/19165266754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dscfi8jj17mra8qhdmuusudoi/98078276633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef4b81b5579008ad200ae4f5621187b0/24551938262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609268609795c---41145301522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/zobonizuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6s5f6coofidmino0rgvvjmt3h/jaremabunaxoworotugew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/sijelotibupojimuvusilipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7162c0733---42673557825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohyundaidanang.com/uploads/image/files/vomimafetibotenibanusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/276dc15988eaa11c11417415f4359950/jexig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8b22e73306745254f5a8a1bb5ae72a4/zafapevuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2059196408258d665531e07491d63a1/35017108285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=business+environment+book+pdf+for+mbaPDF 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_off00011496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11496 18616 bytes
SHA-256: 4cc8f62e4e956432ab2debc3b8efae54dfd541214efa9b8930d3bdd02c342b34
font_01_sfnt_off00014513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14513 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 712b8f9191a01dd028478e4aac5480d5e5bfe3c3052768c500728f02cbcf4bef
font_02_sfnt_off00015eb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1