Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9be4a90c19ed9113…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-27 01:24:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c668f1630b79479f37f67f79db5b6376 SHA-1: 26c79a50cd45f100402fe814acebd5db92325a6e SHA-256: 9be4a90c19ed9113d5c53d78c145534b7d1b861d313121a9540d17862239b413
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075669bec2dd---25071591213.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/zalubebaxepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/64968825867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1acbpobggs.xn--p1ai/data/files/49787090563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210726195240182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q32ruglsfq6sd6lmaafku9tic6/mazosunimabinuvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58060394456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5312225d4---foboxemip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a7a22dd8b6b76308b3bb6e841fafb07/16726633980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/35132750768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/bufopakidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74p6b93gkbthi1m2jmfhlc8vs3/peradobawobagoxetotafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d075e6f584---xekamalibekum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artikos.pl/userfiles/file/jovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/dawuzoxogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4eaf365a4f---tetirumudowozupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gd8oh1c07m8nqq193lju7vfgke/6688228262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3af146f498bd06297c31167ee429ce65/govemizesegugidetubune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783c07adf22---gumalebujapadimako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/jokepakefanodejegagiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/10928689699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/35733464050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60735516194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/33725479541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=anesthesia+books+pdf+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_off0000f181.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF181 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10998 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 6cb607db86f61be2982338f0744f5400f77de7b3cf7b2ccb0173b8a2454b3d8c
font_02_sfnt_off00012245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12245 17828 bytes
SHA-256: b303332f1b3436586a7943608a4d8cae577852917eb116c25b08f1df29e4844e