Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9f2b2577d7da025…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 22:54:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: edc5aab82417749c1bd8fc67efa34a09 SHA-1: 96d0e68bb58e81400ab8ac019e12c6a87de1cbc8 SHA-256: c9f2b2577d7da02543fe691d042bee474efa5bd7a4410f5b3e9562cd6cfff179
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document used as an initial attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bf6f6870707---rizawodiretabi.pdf
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1ebda04dc---12273437382.pdf
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatesobaxebalinaxuwe.pdf
    • http://longthinhphat.net/uploads/files/23828326159.pdf
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/11377097922.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607987201dc39---momasenonavewasagovesub.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/vewixikuwisukivejodu.pdf
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096edf3cd62f---90413192851.pdf
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/wapetetirevovasives.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace7639002344964dfba875471763db7/96611567369.pdf
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/51768678526.pdf
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf19eb4be024a3b76ccd54075128ca28/nixivulizaxuxudefikeluk.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9c560260cfb0b7ca7462d9f8d4f7f79/61796344254.pdf
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7667ebbad5201e8b1b7ffa99997c7a03/tuvuv.pdf
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/gewokox.pdf
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b030e516e81328df2e2fde5f4b92e301/74544902423.pdf
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609366413c9da---15526604812.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3fa25b4076---puzezorinogutexoku.pdf
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/25156471609.pdf
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5l4iv7bta6ea6en9866aeko24/86011206264.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/muoh8vh593te79v0que3pbvri5/54031225575.pdf
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789070f1abd---tesej.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cateye+astrale+8+instruction+manual
    • 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_off0000edf5.bin
481c8d02af1ef0ed50e2e0cc9e2db140b61c8e81bc48051618e50b1d3780e281
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF5 22684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012681.bin
c2d6a0012fe647fef4f98b9fcb418a0fc4b2cef83cff97a55047ac4f8866c39f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12681 10844 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f93.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F93 16792 bytes