Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9fd9f316a9b28a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: eb7de60e6b0b0a18d783fb5945e762dd SHA-1: 54e4cedb28deab2cc150ded2abe89ae363f70e0e SHA-256: c9fd9f316a9b28a62e2df0f664e9f6773a489f3858f9330d8755b0a2d66bf81d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, forming a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple compromised domains and link farm heuristics points to a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757ab10ffe0---18547955891.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bbbswalkforkids.com/clients/c/cf/cf8d0549bdc9bbdffca8bc0db9808b96/File/75194497898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d53bf80a787e8e0ca3ddbd74afa763e9/monipudevemapuminomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b45b4716c6---xukunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3db38ded4a---71199935380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rerativi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/73138053543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56e99301f1ab758efe1091bcfe21f50c/kalijavatisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6a36d622b---44319372035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7hoaalgaj562f2fvh5j69c4h6k/zexixofezejoviguxixami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0267f4c99c81cf9a399e678071a079af/77946321974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/jexufepegunezuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://108homed.com/userfiles/files/89837612245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents/files/dezegaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/tijimoleneruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6831b20ef---tuzino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarathi.live/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/71414610057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/91360301803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdc6db9335---66323474921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/34314633385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impactpluslearning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93019392525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/66054152044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/9359793693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=adverse+drug+reaction+article+pdfPDF 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_off0000c88a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC88A 10940 bytes
SHA-256: bba9da4fa29e5ae035181c34caf2b10ff464715477f5379242df868ec2271643
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D5 17376 bytes
SHA-256: ef30ad8878089b9da91db848a4157d828d971bbf5ae0f34de3302dfc592bf343
font_02_sfnt_off00010eed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1