Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9321be4bb97a3d26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 18:57:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 02a20f930c2733031b253ac5b94bfad6 SHA-1: 495f88c05e767493be4abe0f045b45984f7c9705 SHA-256: 9321be4bb97a3d2689e18c0f484ae3a39577d9a12e09bca52eaa24c938e12c1c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including an image-only presentation and embedded links to external websites. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 1 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+granny+chapter+2+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://wawa757.com/uploads/files/supuras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/48893146170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineuniverse.us/userfiles/file/zituwiraribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents/files/41466887147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26360768753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techinnsrl.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/xoruniduwokinolanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thsport.dk/userfiles/file/24640280232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5lhkv0kc3h3c34158mll5oumeq/lirugenututo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613841669c03a---11583885039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138bae279121---wilapavidujiwine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91592599290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905065031518231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/wilusekuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/zurulezinipevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inggeo.eu/userfiles/files/wigusonusovizexawevebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_AC0AC61311DFF663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/nokiribikon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fslawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76155899218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5174cf39e48adb35322b476b63df6b84/malovumuxakijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/70547122254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamphucthang.com/images/news/files/27334254819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/zafovuworiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gatavitasewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b20e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB20E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA20 14460 bytes
SHA-256: b88982e67718b0c12024503c15837533d5ddfebd2e6b68f8c67d00e916c4b254
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED75 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 7f404126f73d9638d4aab287d407432385a7b66c11e6710844e214a35554ac40