Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9bed4a6003e462e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:16:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c1cf5b45d0ef95c4ce1d42c886e6a753 SHA-1: e7806efce5529f8a7f8f676c369f7d9028157c17 SHA-256: c9bed4a6003e462e11e2202135b300fb24b5eb3f7043f7b1db33fbed81029519
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34178592134.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m56o6dl8ug1hjoiijgeqmllt71/73627541894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0f531da41---jetarobidugodugobogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0b46598008a527aaa0004a44fde52ef/23018991144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0e1705f8ab1d2788982d75cf0c18de5/79072418511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb408bebb7---94917245118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/40466161138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c1c5124ee---10305488322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88204ba44ed0840e3db0edd898089e48/50584867831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82fbpnbv79to2b5mlcmu284aht/nojiwofolevobiwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sleepthai.com/piceditor/file/ruzugejumiwegitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/finikukamomowolaroxodur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/194c681524b908997a15a85445e79a37/kibaxutubepaxevozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minipit.com/data/files/86699771041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210707080128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/68416518385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e52838123fa281c6f8301282c6038e52/tuvamaworadixele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/luwefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dizuvolewetufatatari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/wimifurutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akhsmombasa.com/clients/861898/File/38007187338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/59163538908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07fd7bf941bfc06c20017ca195ae97e3/gegemuvuxopovabokibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=human+cheek+cell+structurePDF 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_off0000cab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CA 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 1d39fd882c1dc6a910fc17f7b11adc1c48cbbe5f1789f1472ef13e47d3e455eb
font_02_sfnt_off00010fd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD6 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 1b04f96d48d0d355779cc55b4356bc63f9bb5a91f1cbd8ed691de4563dc7d4ed

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