Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9050f1fb9466e237…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-16 10:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d2db5a0d0c3155e2cd65b0b06e9fc6cd SHA-1: 18d87f79f5e272de732245a984ce602dde710a5b SHA-256: 9050f1fb9466e237e5279e8165d0fa08fe3f6da1e75a05b813f8e13730dbd5c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27cf89587c428d374cd3b486684155b/xenala.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ba7b9acc2f---65185048348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28b3e1d65c---gisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moderncarrent.com/user_img/files/26311548858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59d39013ec---26903994955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/kulupawababu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/koxuvipupafuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/vunedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/digepenetozumojilegodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/42715207965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/ruvud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210707111759_x99mgj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/biluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eklyps.net/images/file/16489589141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd8c4957c11---67768434441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/tamov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cug52bvksp0f6j1c0m68mvf743/18973191367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/rulogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210724_63A2430A69101EDF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veejaytechnologies.com/userfiles/file/gedujodadunup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/tobokazokumode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kizkulesikizogrenciyurdu.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/mojaboxonorokaxeruxevusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ov7mpv3j0n46nv3fn5c2h64h3/73807172320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+commando+adventure+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000dfa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA7 10940 bytes
SHA-256: ba8b29aef3b070862edda6f28dcd1263ac1c1594f18a5cefa01efcce2b10fbb4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DB 16592 bytes
SHA-256: fe78b431ce55d6f22317520fa84616f9b472794e654116e329e02f1a7be6d195
font_02_sfnt_off00012441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12441 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1