Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bc1e66f30111592…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:18:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 14cb9cbd892629291ab1eace4403c77d SHA-1: ab92f1d7b34b3f42e670f391490aebff10122255 SHA-256: 9bc1e66f30111592cc9b18b2840f7e0bb2dfbbf482932488ee2720da42bf9ba8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF that contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for distributing malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/jekesogadajisemaditegiga.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100c2041084d---zegexajali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/tejebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woorymart.com/userData/board/file/lukavubilejunanisebavaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a9321a095---vumupavalixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/21324351250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/15851751871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/xilevogawivewaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ed392caefffdb287d5804ed857eb77e/28362578465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/sewowepara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba4d461b351---diwukamigekivaxugovujufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentbucharest.net/images/userfiles/bokomejamapime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d5dd3552e2b9e664c8f6c562aeb074/waninewijekizagepapivulif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2be66c327304fa6a227a590652661c16/taxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/19299289520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b42dfbcc9d---57436183763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210714_74F996FE4504D623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://89928386.com/uploads/files/202108180337402179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afro-safari.com/upload/files/64095527518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/361e8ee26260b600998eb0f4c38b5132/pupaxodewebajokipazibon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210810230948_o1xdkj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/timam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lgj884dufk8l1uh8porco950u/werutajaguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=hp+scan+to+pdf+software+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD871 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f083.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF083 20224 bytes
SHA-256: 2d2b54c90a87e43b247cc6dd6ae731b9550036b2ca1056ab5091fb7dc1677e3f
font_02_sfnt_off0001260b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1260B 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 39e4b3520bb1d482c8d6737135d498b85f884d3c5b3489258a226fff96fe2b8d