Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e9ddc33bfb0a1f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 19:08:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 27094f75750e46a5d8062a230c478e57 SHA-1: 544a61f74ba0ad339ed304cbafbade1f915d686d SHA-256: 4e9ddc33bfb0a1f8d934318bd6aa007293fbb2788270a9f218f5c769d721d4a5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, aiming to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the link farm detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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://nhatrangpalace.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/moragigafaruwibipadomi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135687c0fb69---mefobilafaliborubowunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kindspring.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75690966987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cd2cc9844---58938709930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.com/uploads/media/84574124026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9fcef8ca21c5a27c387fea70ff1b98f/50328393295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babijie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908010014907685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apteka-wratislavia.pl/halatecza/userfiles/file/37398009834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harmony.im/userfiles/file/54034858055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukonlinedirect.com/userfiles/files/xapaxatujinagabokijadupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202195956223952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/gozupemapedipejozito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130510ba41b1---60962985529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613080ffbe431---10427253116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/36241527902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/89810209069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chulatutoracademy.com/chulatutor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12063204628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opgzvh.hr/upload/file/kojowaxuvuvimadaxivovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butyfarm.mm520.net/userfiles/files/86665206437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrhobbscoffee.com/images/uploads/file/88987821621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/jelobijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/1869585378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/nexosorudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massintech.ru/img/outer/files/pitalokugagolasamuxelibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=power+unlimited+2+movie+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_off0000e84a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001005c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005C 17256 bytes
SHA-256: c8046da8b09b7c32d6759d291f89ee896f8fded26bbb7065a5f5f1010c7a201f
font_02_sfnt_off00012d21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D21 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 6740d30c8e9796c63db6af64f8e20fc3e8716d135cb9e54d1e2545ede6ad799b