Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09727498ed83b705…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8727cd8c6e6d8dc45a45bd969d5b56f6 SHA-1: 5c0c2ec45c8e67bf63e99bc5fa84424205ad0cb0 SHA-256: 09727498ed83b70569bfb7cbf9b8726f90bd6b00e26b43a071b885f99f903328
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=before+sunrise+123movies PDF link annotation
    • http://newmob.it/userfiles/files/4263423039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyliver.ru/files/files/gavivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ebad2e286---28464738686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/56668569459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614145eb3c64b---58199326219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/1488356267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/fedevudadogoxiwufuxabuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/74470505772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/64469810089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webs123.com/userfiles/file/fogetat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/562590d2230f22fbf26e6184f0128a61/ragob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/sikomavefetamevekukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/putonetumivanenixudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/96049678240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc7aab9c93---xitopijukelonirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatfailogistics.com/fckeditor/files/file/musizulixofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f2h63c2.ip4secure.net/upload/files/1156965481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pentas.eu/userfiles/file/39394545942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613464b140b09---ripabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-07b6a75bc4d0.breakthrough-physical-therapy.com/userfiles/files/83394735139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/ludupexigalelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/timubevimo.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_off0000d6b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B1 21484 bytes
SHA-256: 2f670ec253832a1d46be2bc4f99e9f3a44da6509c8d2c900202325bcf72fc06a
font_01_sfnt_off00010f70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F70 10632 bytes
SHA-256: ba409a8e279be0c7fd47da38704d2028069b5b58ff6af7fb2a7dcd03c17bdbcb
font_02_sfnt_off000127eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1