Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9617b7ae6bcb2692…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-08-07 00:10:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0583002bd931a71400a00f2b27ff578c SHA-1: 1072c9c78669b316155463ffb9c7203db61c0335 SHA-256: 9617b7ae6bcb2692692f5e8905a9d969cd216abb2a604c79d2f1a9b1ef8cc3bb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/lejupovinikesara.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/tufano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b1f767739---53482395548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd9080e0f2---wopukuvaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/rawuwavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayatrosetta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mi0l35fujjn8p2ev9kt582s4tb/46173535597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cca028176edf7fb530e5197d8eb8407/gexexafalibamup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhs1962.com/clients/b/b9/b967f936f519796c2a696a6ed1da67f9/File/60707891601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eee0dba040---niwetajuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurkhasfinance.com.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92322786970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68gjenpt2qfou9h147qdsveih4/22575457504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3af7ed6bac---badirajojuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/mobamofabodoteneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/33268016491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101eyewear.com/luutru/files/gefulokonivisij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36284760757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luronugafalebazid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashole.hu/UserFiles/File/lenomabakugabuxiwidujeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/ganulofekomiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slaterlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94b7130539f91f8681bc804653f916d3/ruwesotifutokodadukolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/tuxeresawomivabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/46514638160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92485b881---35299363806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/7110982652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ashrae+standard+55-2020+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_off0000ebb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB2 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 984744a2ab2daf40780ae10715a42e88fd4dc314e74a0c2edb338d64fa52ee01
font_01_sfnt_off00010475.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10475 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 87563886a040b5abd16c39c9f98df8d99b0c381a6f27a567036de163db704764
font_02_sfnt_off00013041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13041 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1