Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 797f9cd9506bdd9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:50:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3e8b6e1064fed244f5cada31d5bf1cda SHA-1: 49b00990171bbbe2d56e88f5d0ce9dd5f6b920f8 SHA-256: 797f9cd9506bdd9fbd088c92cbf6b2d52e3418595ce3baf49036ac8a5c69fc24
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. The presence of a download button lure and numerous links to compromised or disposable hosting sites suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual content, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious PDF designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/zeletegu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maychaybocaocap.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/59126006930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139052f6b1a1---99392324038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/nogewunatiripewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioego.cz/userfiles/file/55686690201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konsultacjenaukowe.eu/Upload/file/38695356015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f25416761e---64447078122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/niwozaretapazovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/34980290752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/12311409898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epgeptech.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72157128320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/tiwanemanufuliwimefaniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/magejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiss.at/upload_files/files/89853585597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/82040953812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://openkomm.yussfone-crm.com/userfiles/file/76476258137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/17997494609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b6de5192d---lureropobanekawoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/viberibinepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/durexofawiwifolapifewot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senvietsystem.com/ckeditor/upload/files/59251164714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapempi.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49856021874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/582187cd9eb982593ef8472c1fbda35e/rilukedapuzikikowabogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopcuhaiphong.vn/upload/files/nasozakewowufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/40190992732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/84110671000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=asus+memo+pad+7+custom+romPDF 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_off0000dc8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8A 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 8167af6a54cbf4e8be26f6c2909f86c45d7205fe9b5f90f3ed356ad6c0456b1f
font_01_sfnt_off00010ac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC8 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 8194709262bdbb04f4bf870c8e6bc56fb00cf881ce50c43a4917bc71f52504dc
font_02_sfnt_off00012300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12300 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1