Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a9c16e29b75ebbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:55:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 117c42598dde374fcb4e9f09b2395f4f SHA-1: 66aa4a1d0fcb5e7921e78be2eedbc0436a4a71fa SHA-256: 0a9c16e29b75ebbc57141e1f7f926fb92281e58182193eda56398a3bf1f18111
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and heuristics point towards a malicious document intended to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/jipaxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://magdrywall.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/28675460564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312db838d69---22897952889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/55196293093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bussmann-tiefbau.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buluwojekeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ludakopigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livermore.com/wysiwygfiles/file/jutadogugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wintec-samu.hu/uploads/files/kesubosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/30305900331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/besoruloxejakigatejedopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/pakokukafobidozegezebobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitness-sport.it/userfiles/file/53055719291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390edf3fdbb---viduseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210916_104731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onutglen.com/caningest/images/file/mojadukebaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://car-zone.sk/data/data/file/degolupozev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hycxchina.com/filespath/files/20210909222752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dtd.com.pk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lokalepanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherspubandgrille.com/userfiles/files/ramokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barrau-philippe-sedeco.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falitab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3l8877cr322ogg895p1dlsnt0/45937448540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/1342830759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmkms.net/upfile_editor/2021/files/geliwunizidupunurufulimuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egymast-segito.hu/uploaded/fck/file/ramigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/rebakazolavisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=opendyslexic+font+androidPDF 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_off0000de32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE32 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 08e70d5b39d05290a568501c0a736d4520172ca95432f8ac8957d5fae0141668
font_01_sfnt_off0000f76e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76E 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 13c20d55d6231037711f41433f4e86588183d97f47b74713bc69c7158be05063
font_02_sfnt_off000123f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1