Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c9108780fba45d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 01:12:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ff1a0651587dc90c96cd01f88645eb4d SHA-1: 3aec0ba791113878d3b8a8617b1381f3a021a7b4 SHA-256: 4c9108780fba45d97837c5040393a94e43a43f523176b452d076e6782f4c6a68
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to compromised websites and a visual download button, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload storage further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aav1s2628vdol880cmp82dinmu/38349749605.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/miputerifewusasanigavalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/nivuwawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba6190db4---91345976414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/45346748535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppbiljnf98dh8jefga70ukfrop/85730496772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41381262c9f02b8f86416b736943c3a9/45005558380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e5l0r48kkfmmssj4eto2das5q/23711330510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltobj30dbe34rrl89gok41vpi2/57734415616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master-service.ro/images/file/paxezuvaxuralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf943b8bfcb---76249737930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4e7791613a50dd4d45211eaca182f7/24855002095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c0453e7a6adee101730222be45d3f69/91939845300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd29f45e1949713784afe30aed34799/23692643476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbfe456c5ef3365dc5a1dd53166b2ed4/55244660214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f9e9b598292f135de08ea177f9f7e5a/nejowokujuxasapememune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/wodat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanaca.com/uploads/image/files/32532022122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711843d4f2c---xinezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c5e7d3efbbfb9c3fd2006db847d94ea/baletenudijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cf982375a---65728844081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d02edbv8v5eb1gs4lsij7m7u46/8168594796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/tufowarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8a0bd206f---webejurefoneberirugopeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+apk+and+obb+for+android+downloadPDF 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_off0000f6c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C5 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 78ea7c09a9c01294df9ddf0271929f46698c147295755c4c109b6dea768b4fd0
font_01_sfnt_off0001250d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1250D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D24 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 5897341d921a2d7e7b54d98f1e722fb1ebe7cc05d02e38455d2bd63bb15edb82