Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bd439a7e7ea7411…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 21:18:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b83420297cf0ce639ce3aaa27c60a2c9 SHA-1: e7799fcf92308d2f0d699fad94db1127d171da85 SHA-256: 9bd439a7e7ea741130aa1470477788caa5d96ff7d56672d12f55ae6aeaad6b24
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, designed to trick users into downloading additional malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://bdsps.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/10669004157.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://taiwancy.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/52501373126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newcityhk.com/userfiles/nalufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/59389410619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://61kidsclub.com/userfiles/file/76601615311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac67710f6eda5d2f1b1a84f7f4b8e8c8/wozoluwibuxujarugalami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgunbey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/65740157111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/42551587712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34524522595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/90432890385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/19177999273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info/files/52721947824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/wodotokujefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/96588535385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dusamomunomujenakigidubex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwonofezelusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dveropolis.ru/upload_picture/fogamimuxapimujabetovunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13694697937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/22699657481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/renofitebunutamal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefocusdesign.com/upload/files/51767619761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/84199888627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lelifabozinuvakoganig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe7b3a441d---kixefuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+resume+failed+download+in+chrome+android+mobilePDF 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_off0000d351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD351 17444 bytes
SHA-256: e6c3c4ed18eaece7df7a578a56b3d39683bd4f1782942411d29985ba0c0bc1c6
font_01_sfnt_off00010079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10079 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11890 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 6b03b56e9788319930b34cddd14fa1738c067d58cdcbde7b74c42494c6b5fe2e