Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09dea461ca7beb1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 23:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 26e7db62f97150276b746531988fcb6b SHA-1: 163dbf906136358e9b5858a21192ded9df669e50 SHA-256: 09dea461ca7beb1ee21d3380ee8e45786fc0f7a6f5674bf0ffe0f670c94f031b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' heuristic indicates it's likely an image-based document with a clickable action, designed to trick users into interacting with the embedded URLs. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9851

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+versions+alphabetically PDF link annotation
    • http://www.hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juxejoriwesevidawate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.com/images/upload/File/vodimagatebefej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmountvernon.com/uploads/files/79513752333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/lidofowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/15202136107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fed467b73c---95285987901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://punaide.com/userfiles/files/19331760807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/66602610833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910135323695753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202109092129145836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund-sro.cz/UserFiles/File/81839194108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xfswchem.com/upload/files/vinizigetenogurubipenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92623718344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/xoperoguxiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suphammamnon.org/uploads/files/85971681611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95n1opkrabr9uat722rpj8o6n1/bamikimodop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexvp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85982508207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbpkrosno.com/fckfile/36482886439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/navisisirupoxatarumewiran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents/files/xolere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgic.ru/!upload/files/21437282336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfect-gallery.com/userfiles/file/kokibirojodufopibotased.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/25365157336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forssh.com/userfiles/file/28382605172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7461lgdg1b0c0ks7c0vcto0u20/66211323341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/41160784594.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_off0000b0be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0BE 13852 bytes
SHA-256: 17328ea642603a13a558a571b2fdb15bb4673859426b7f4664b0f886c0d5eedb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD295 10912 bytes
SHA-256: d6d9cb90ab8d7005a1985cee04035f477d8795b0bcd9c431aa840bd77598cdf0
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1