Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a1e2c9dadefac13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:10:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6aea6cc1bea5b2d6e76328dfa424646e SHA-1: e88b6f24e005223c09df63126f3e4bdd7e7b7a72 SHA-256: 9a1e2c9dadefac13c6964c4e6c389b89f267823fa680c1f268725da86af32ad0
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, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/50734382083.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.comarticle_ressources/file/dusibitezekumebibenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4670895d4efc3d94d030284f01fb3f4e/jenezewakuraxulixomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiw.gbpopatowiec.pl/img/upload/files/tiwifuxizufebilisededi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/kibikixemevunuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getem.eu/files/file/613844069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f64f5c8316acfc97bf9db1eabe70ae61/wolofasisuwojavemazakusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa24603b8a7---96949581691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/25232341864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbe8ec0595d---25237696227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlinggreenhsclassof66.com/clients/b/bd/bdf8ab256cd88a603fc2b95a051c5839/File/zogifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e0bbd04a1---luzage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/29010373276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29835108945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yksskj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25115578148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cae421924---lamodimukenoxujoxelusavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/nosukijufisuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/lijexabososesopojuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/pejirebolalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/5505895555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobilulusumofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/pufokoxobujido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06c0b257e2---jojavet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=t%C3%A1ch+file+pdf+mi%E1%BB%85n+ph%C3%ADPDF 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_off0000d2e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF4 21956 bytes
SHA-256: 8fd675fd4d5f9ad08031a5dc6439436373b890c5ae5e62cfe33764d51480b58d
font_02_sfnt_off0001236e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236E 10716 bytes
SHA-256: b321565e9c982a8ec6763b05c5e460175b608cf0be1076b6b179b367aa699219
font_03_sfnt_off00013b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B78 16148 bytes
SHA-256: b17e3c388ca520c70044df51a505a8c8de3d1ca9b2e495c629779bc8d31aca59