Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ad92e13287745c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.6 KB Created: 2021-06-13 00:53:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8d373e18de7d8268655d9ff06d4db844 SHA-1: bcf3ee1e34a7fa4580aa4c34d5856a2b8f5b7f82 SHA-256: 9ad92e13287745c04510fbcab88e24f71ac8a98d4e561d2bdddb644ef15fd976
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' lure and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+and+prisoner+of+azkaban+full+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c459e4b4f90---75737598888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wixebuzalenasirevubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607664d935501---mekabojogapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0515e8c1052bea7385d4345c8caf42ca/zewudepibupanuwijifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5e2fe0dddd097e9ce7c16b839719c6/88907214497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/78827894367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/fibojoborud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/53720148932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prc5qe1t9fmlq1901edmf2srir/88188859085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae92452fcf---96416572624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/1213982610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e03qln5vnnikeql4k4dhnusq2d/78959285949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/164fb4c115718ac090a88e6a2538b8c9/21822579725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/47702869063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf60d8147b---jowabobomokuzadawexulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/803d0583df1bbd1290966dabb847c47c/47635587228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4e49cb594---60613424205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2259babdc444522af4d8254f14820212/madepetonamevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001948e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1948E 5656 bytes
SHA-256: af38bd9bc1ea5b0b8715a8bddb45e76c94bb45f1dca85b0804c26882a4b865dd
font_01_sfnt_off0001a7d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A7D2 12140 bytes
SHA-256: 8e9bbaf4b1c2d4d74e05bf7560a1417059771848092a0402822ac671e5f53189