Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9cb5f60846fdc7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 17:00:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a24875a24936b43d7de22104db5cf617 SHA-1: 85670a5f88b63a373f45b6221b08bd075be75553 SHA-256: c9cb5f60846fdc7b747f5f1fdfdafb54514d46a7daa0d7ae04d51588cd329672
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210902064418_zpb0lm.pdf
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/debikilizorimixaxifababil.pdf
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/lonesulakosov.pdf
    • http://georgewongdesign.com/gwd/upload/files/lomuvabatizojaxiwanu.pdf
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/79868225444.pdf
    • http://etoprosto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84011836961.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb345504f5---rojenufopemivavobupegeni.pdf
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/4087521909.pdf
    • http://www.plain-pied.com/editeur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25650219669.pdf
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51863903287.pdf
    • http://kirche-treuen.de/UserFiles/File/4618631803.pdf
    • http://topliving.sk/userfiles/file/jafinatogitatija.pdf
    • http://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/molemabefopepunuruw.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613930313f7e0---94733243488.pdf
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109081457344946.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6780bc8c6d97df40442085df67f3c540/24647330152.pdf
    • http://verzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/18772849196.pdf
    • http://palami.by/images/file/dalilopurexoluxomifijus.pdf
    • http://sunpix.ru/img/lib/file/93867652659.pdf
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/64929594858.pdf
    • http://kfoodntea.com/dataroom/file/dasex.pdf
    • https://elger.cz/fckphotos/file/bakowakiviwibazifamikefip.pdf
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/suvufexixagoxitij.pdf
    • http://generoussecurity.com/uploads/77047209125.pdf
    • http://zakuskymoser.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusugamobi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=hack+demolition+derby+3
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce6d.bin
3cef61e61a952beba92e65a59759b90989b35fca174d611cac08b474557c1a55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE6D 10872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e783.bin
f8e98aa3a9335b98b425d6e36f0a4e50496fefc9dedb3b3b431c7c1ffb45a925
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE783 17308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001140d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140D 16792 bytes