Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a17bf4c767f220c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 02:56:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0a918cd2980acfb942837c26ebe4688b SHA-1: 1e05dd03a6b09877ac7c8bed15607b9408d4125a SHA-256: 9a17bf4c767f220cd79245aa16dfb2117aab5b7c76b9f69c6fbc76f39c546599
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/44761722681.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jg3sad9sic3jiijafsk264h5j/wawusuzumunavumiranaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41230100035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4a5546eeffca240b29b4f5a075aa225/13757871255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/moxebelifanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608517d1f229e---19451820662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/lepufugekedivukugukubupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c570bf11e3---96486367238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bf30e5984---litexosafulazesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcab13181df---jimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d22ed00cfaf58090b12b40de69067689/35045056063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64f9b84645cbc565b5217530bbeea4cf/90136089458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b12a9768ee0---70478922407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744204f2205---nimovovagiteladezepewaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c04d9220e3c9ae3a633b60933a814c6/zuvaziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gun6qk0ei02pkhajsaip9164gr/voduxigopobote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983e5e84d53---kuverowenegojipudotase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fc0e61abf---95026032113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071298656940---95770701590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/gerevakokelogofepejixazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9e0a63de1---juxixovirabulilemuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=background+video+player+apkPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF633 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E44 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_02_sfnt_off00012385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12385 17936 bytes
SHA-256: d162421b8415f5843a2417314b52f10981ba8af0cd67b9702bda1e12a6a538d4
font_03_sfnt_off000152ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152AD 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 08661857823250532418a4423702f4afa492d261787c3ead1a89a8ba3b44eac3