Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 927e9afbbf997fe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:12:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d37083ade65e330df72789fb3bb399d9 SHA-1: 7e9466e26da718970faa2ea1121091b3bfa1a882 SHA-256: 927e9afbbf997fe6aa5622e293a9067a2bb156e37c23093ce120c4459892142f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and a visual download button, suggesting a lure to download a secondary payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, but the presence of multiple links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sugurukulerutakib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210704_03445BC6D51B1AA3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asahiru-ban.com/files/files/baworajupapazave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3253a141b567804b32ed5b5aa1eeca3/11560757751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gchs1966.com/clients/2/2f/2f663f305105093038a7fc4b193dd8f8/File/80131946622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3b27c0db0c41c511fe05f58690d1b2c/24210216903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b24a9434d6398e53f552d1e7e0404962/93172835018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948eedbb90c---pabirikukogota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchofgodinjamaica.org/app/webroot/files/56696570509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sme1970reunion.com/clients/7/78/786f1e38e9ed540b4a7d4f5dbcc09398/File/mawolumabapazoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6493e529d88f67b989550c6ba1fb50d7/67161929618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bac0065833---83100910643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/77115659475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/guzukepuzuramujunuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/27319663465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608793fd931c7---paxakonenovizapat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ve85g07rlccdcrgke3s1qjovai/jemavibizimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bc3a01cf13e96e9466f006376619a77/56288852953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2og3kvdohklghapdrobsjuc07/26525123211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/17422883745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/xaperuwetonivufemeruzidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alajuusa.ee/media/contents/file/xiwokamilifoxowuxaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44086342478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/87077011026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=discussion+questions+for+the+hate+u+givePDF 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_off000100e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E8 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 81898fe4791f7260dd24e6585b2aa9c3bb37824a848e8810508f0eaa6e243fb1
font_01_sfnt_off00012e27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E27 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 556f7e1047b3ca51a6d9feecd09dcd64b53fc96544b93a16a51044d023ee1120
font_02_sfnt_off0001470f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1470F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1