Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9356619bb76a0e7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 01:19:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d37b962b6184aab22b2f436cc20d86e0 SHA-1: 71452aaf4597b29c08a6694fa08652daf3ebd102 SHA-256: 9356619bb76a0e7b13de9223612286b443c850b38ef65126657903e21a14a37b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm hosted on disposable domains, designed to redirect users to potentially compromised upload storage. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent to trick users into downloading unwanted content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://bharatceramics.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedureparuporapi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/mejusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/18597824495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/buvilejiruzowivarawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/46508489926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/22741941941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/joxijedodosulidalila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/fufekugederiwekeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/rufegivujipokegokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210908135336187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/tefekexafigokuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventclub.pl/userfiles/file/42526373970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68134870525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30132722351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/lujogerevululofowak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfanekeshmiri.ir/userfiles/file/83514611826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/bufakurawape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338287d094f---18027285673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ba471567f7---93005770855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koparieshorvathbusz.hu/files/file/sexevirafilusamopekefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d23ee7af005f972ba1c328a6e81cc0/70780917404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/4721339924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalihemp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63050101555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614331aa47a01---jedenuxivesavidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/12772129346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=applied+physics+2+for+polytechnic+pdfPDF 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_off0000e4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0E 18280 bytes
SHA-256: 265a2487f318466e11177d22a57ca1cbb35ae40f72c096aa677e75f327c2b87c
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4C 10772 bytes
SHA-256: b7d8a0df4c3b57819dbc4d245dc79d4794396fc4d87ff06690486764acc918d3