Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b71c5eddc8d4b8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 22:58:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5c6c703dc322c105d44d14ce5978bda3 SHA-1: 1aca5a32a37b7a7c064aa3033c3912d3d8f9ba05 SHA-256: 9b71c5eddc8d4b8c91d4d8ec158c4438f32b6559b748e74078460ceb42b9de7f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the phishing and malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reading+pdf+books+on+kindle+fire PDF link annotation
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a220b17ae9---84828218375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/ludaditazekuxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/fupodovinepetozibagudafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/69036243416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222e8dda97b3868665c4c938a717f8ff/10628546841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/nudusaposimejajozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/91091548284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c14316ee1e---guvetav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a220d3652---28308940199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa826e05108549d5c38e95de74de9ab/63806519386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/mipomaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/natoluregabumakafanekovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/wagavefavuzunulawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d6fb6cb77---34477565988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/vitalasofepulovoxaron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/mezumavodomesegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607231da5500f---98044222981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/pegesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607400d58b602---nemugizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce1f930f39---soduvozadosugexoraxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krmr8rb20u4jd2hueud8evvvel/zikajuxesalenugukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdoahe1n844pro26ucnoqa8c1s/87732484272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b32b2af4a7d1cbe73a78d27035dfb78/5386797187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/44122870980.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_off0000f3b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B0 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 7b55586c3893510f4bffba306805efb335102f6d404d858a3afe03f17c42eeda
font_01_sfnt_off00012296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12296 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013aad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AAD 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 1bdb65040a1715274e5feee63d0cb1f52b5f2f3f94bf0dfb72ac32a0e1fced4d