Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9539758d0aea520d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:06:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fe8a3214246c99e37809ff50e3411f22 SHA-1: 16c1d5940db9fc308fefb90035cc7e12bd57af75 SHA-256: 9539758d0aea520d8b043f81e1ff14b3380cfdd9763e6f3dd329a7faf06a362b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and the presence of numerous external links. The document directs users to a farm of compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting sites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 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://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80983046485.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/81724852820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6hll4l1rto0m70blk84k859as/jorigigufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/26405903132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9tr4d7tu1hh6r5bgqldlaamce/pepiluwusonoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a1db9a8bf5b8eb4a6b15ce3e25cb76c/64698071984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/17020078926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ctb0hargi6abdihl9g6njq2is/73118951147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/45514922295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/somukevutepugotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ski10s6nd42aqslah4v5tcd97v/lasuloliwukitunovezotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6120D4D310DEC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1966.com/clients/8/85/85e9e0a76fddb83d7689cebc6ab07fae/File/6202072309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/12970695551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ae5351c74a6bbf778353e5baf9819e8/79451489386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/37309833139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ort168.com/upload/ckeditor/files/bajaxogajapilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonmeadows.org/userimages/zajurivusodusudozexiwoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt8vssjsloih6o603c6hoqpuo7/jufepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/31857821944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8de4c4daf6---pumaxato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/47737706221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e5622c94ba44cc941a00588b2b35af/48995268981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ms+office+2007+installation+steps+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_off0000af9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AD 14132 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8e798b557b14bc46047f2c0e985c9a079db102cb71e68352566e2331c39892
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA76 10800 bytes
SHA-256: fddebdc4457ec944428840e545ce53850fdf05df8220e76a9021cd736051cb42