Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b09bba39fbf860d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:07:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 385dc608aaf312e0e39cef106f86ee10 SHA-1: 2e28585ce26891ea1534e640398110182701faf6 SHA-256: 9b09bba39fbf860df004341ed0df789c1bc514b8ecf3170e73a8a3451cdb4be8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a screenshot image designed to trick users into clicking embedded links, which point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's a container for malicious links rather than user-readable content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 2 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed3f7881993965460f154e108d69362a/43667165033.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f66f9731b7---joweketikivinijew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourconn.com/userfiles/file/202109141050484176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_8E4C9D8E3ABF0517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93820389cd42c2d3e2de3f2f420e3a5f/notekinunesowuvafuxupebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/18699764684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.pl/galeria/file/wopisibimokusapidefatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturenhuman.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/tebogitabefidujigudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vibapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcareerclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/48187088297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhodnoceni-penez.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/podabisaruzutuvojorikabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75805728023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32540972299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longruiglass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210910_050442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/040609311540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/79740502621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonlawhouse.in/userfiles/file/27038167987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/kipakesekaderasaziga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/1200230774613afb961bf0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fd6bc1e4e---nukabiturizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42d8176af3b9c79430f1577f43132166/50524915904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=athan+free+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000afc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFC4 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 3266ed046d02986bc74ed9dd08ccaec3be0284ea5f1db6e6a5d8ac3d7f8b7160
font_01_sfnt_off0000c715.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC715 14236 bytes
SHA-256: 1840ca40f8efa459df7373fb2095ae0dd3a9fd5d497b69e1cefa38a6072b6e97
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1