Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9713026996aa5998…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c4e8c180667a1fa659c220ee244866af SHA-1: aa6cbb1197e193e199640411b00ea660064bf50f SHA-256: 9713026996aa59987823888f930996463daa54758c9af1dc0a1a21a6cde6897f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' lure and impersonation of cloud document services further supports this. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicates malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=change+setting+to+open+pdf+files PDF link annotation
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dc2e529dd4be50653f9ac8299f3561a/13422732348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/xifevagijuvipitasesuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kapafesigifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/54005316530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skatrip.com/basefile/skatripcom/files/nukarosukagenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/65607078414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/dasolupasoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a3a7213da192aea084f322f5107e24d/kupamenovopefezewivoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cb66f15df---69938347212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtle.net/ckupload/files/27429483124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/26588930534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1dd12103389cd763d1679fd41ecc096/dexotakiselawonasagugejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5349456681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d383e31851---bisolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wagaskar.com/media/naduwitisafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/kojetiresusidip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/nudovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca723b6a40---90114623163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/33647950724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/razularukatonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95cvj2i580p4fl5m7nfliesa0q/kinufovararurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a676081620a---detimofilijofubafifumipim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogforbigt.com/clients/6/61/61f7a61d17da296148a50ccd59c4a139/File/ratotefeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35671730446.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_off0000efab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BD 19252 bytes
SHA-256: 397f95a91340f088ea64abc04e9332ce28896a28c6dd6bdcaf3f7c3fc47b40e9
font_02_sfnt_off00013954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13954 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 24b2dda01ea0173837eb3612087debaed66456ebd48a1164b55b25ff91ccf559