Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9272961e6d566336…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 12:30:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6864dc0c50467134a123a2906a3f4d7c SHA-1: 8b95eef7deafcca5264c20e39abff87ffc39b2e9 SHA-256: 9272961e6d56633660a27b578e3f65370fbe4e59fca3d281ade6cf2fab645c35
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the phishing and malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86896a6348---28363124523.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad41ab262cebc3e082ff48805394d086/83307093979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/54890755381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37e957f1a53eda9c9e2922908e11ecd8/biwowutim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/pubasokumuwumemaketowona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa43ebba7c---jixufitesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oj6jdhjv40e22phccs5ekg9q4j/kafovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/34598361177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herculesestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vubifesemivuxoxakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63d5f5f553---mafagamadirepewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/69035828680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/67356963672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ppk33hnl2f8nc6q502dqakq82/xazesusadibuworofozixabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dce35e094c2---teluwejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3l8jbouacla5q9r7eo7ht5okuv/xefovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/9269854310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/valeweboravetud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zebcom.in/userfiles/file/70874979441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b149b57e120489d0fa356b24cd9b870/89883442650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke1uk1g0ptpgnasr1kf6fkrrvl/dorejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/xadop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3a3cd3920---wukagegowakosazilulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd4761190b8---wiwetonere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/fabikutafuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=the+lodge+123moviesPDF 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_off0000cb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e39c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE39C 17504 bytes
SHA-256: b19ab352e20ca50f48dddfd4cf3bc460e8b0b0e9ef55284224edba79999832e0
font_02_sfnt_off000111a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A6 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5f14fba59fc31455e9c83a9746e1a4233da25f76272eb5127e835b6ff7381e