Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9630f776eff32d18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:09:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ab84331501dfb339f14d6ab9ec4392c5 SHA-1: c1ca45324d2d284f71fcc75fe5ba8ac45fde2a75 SHA-256: 9630f776eff32d180740ba592100237061af1939d65ddec2ad09d0e092c03cd2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 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, directing users to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulavoja.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zasewiroxipaxabibivojomam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/68472571919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbma.org/files/fck/file/powupefanogofetumokufog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/83422976888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lisenafibibatutunuluzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myatkinsonfamily.com/userimages/fojogevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/81622576430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/fizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13283006635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xidomadukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-020.com/userfiles/file/20210913234352_l36xkn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifo-sea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52779959295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/wilopozebovine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/matis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6b1d5b8d8---48394297291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/2533701743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpviettin.com/upload/files/samujejukurenepezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aalzkj.love-mrt.com/upload/files/xakapatoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/025d8b7f5013bed20ee31f8b4d6669ed/20343114823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/79316172161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/60747181657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ab523d887---foxerinuvavibejipinugoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukdae.com/files/fckeditor/file/43527606489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisestudentz.com/userfiles/file/mefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=fast+and+furious+9+english+subtitles+downloadPDF 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_off0000fa80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA80 19020 bytes
SHA-256: f3533c642c5931f996a6ce6c1dce68972d0b881fc0094265db69b95f13ceac84
font_01_sfnt_off00012c86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001449d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1449D 11104 bytes
SHA-256: bc9ebc8ae4dc1d01621254ebe33da62de638d3a8865fcf9dcfe7fd804d57811e