Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09352b333b7dfdb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:20:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a849dcae5a9e73623d5ed639eed3ed69 SHA-1: 760d10c2fb3af7aacb7470c1623477d10bf509b7 SHA-256: 09352b333b7dfdb15d2ba5974a12a0b52b62416869fefe61bddb89d3a5d74fd9
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of a 'download button' lure and instructions for password-protected archives strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thoptv+app+for+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/91132517132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38be766badfd593e62d1e7d927fa2fd0/xixejidoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d502b05a87---89734962389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff8e588bd2c4e634993405bb3e102b1c/fepivimawagomidofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-11/20210611081058336419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cb44d622f---gafulufoliromapizuzeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/zaberupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d50a697243700e9b43ae255c31a7082c/fepigakenasizifebenedovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2648b0708---60218677414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ae6b0580b---43893642238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/588b3d99df822e0b25d7cb87a5a0ecf3/26972385969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9308c122c1---bepegofutiditifakakizefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9791f72209---21344538269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4152ae52b---93565616856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/lijerogonarulugali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/judoboxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///98197572074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d83145e1c---luzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd66a3b1cb585e171b63a58fc72e1ad/fuzejafalawaxugexejapabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86c979fe38---teregex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/binevemelunulisaxukelowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010a68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A68 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 1675e7f084523b383d94646f74f99635214cb86d20cdba68551cfdec95f3d5bc
font_01_sfnt_off00012179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12179 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 195d6d86ce9cbe96650883b11f2a1098f9a77a4a2a96a55b649bee8cbcceae8e
font_02_sfnt_off00014e41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1