Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bf86854c540c860…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-26 15:04:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: cdddfd76ae37d5fb51cbb5949ece9127 SHA-1: fa3f31dd3461b80444f69f8bc94aef7498eec637 SHA-256: 9bf86854c540c86076817facd351d76709b21ab48ed0d9b2d4aa8663eb62e383
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on disposable infrastructure or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or scam attempt designed to trick users into downloading further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/84686410720.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67d074f04d0e7eb56bfc9fdac31616c0/fejitezazelesex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/8946917744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4levs5e8nk1iglikahaum5m93m/67959323509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faea019e0e0---51314553898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62c00ccd8d7b43ac0f714888f4564474/wusikoziratavagipototoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sixtyguildersresearch.com/admin/photos/file/41401598553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce9718d4335d224ab6eadf0d867a6d1d/91122937718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6c822d99a---50268859175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/sexeweluwigiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10a900fc06---32415713921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/upload/users/files/27935721632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sporteambiente.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimopofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/relizasadugasogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/332539839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wearefamilypalestine.com/clients/3/3b/3bc38fc23f9ffb54b20226cbd6ad6ce3/File/jifunakufirafejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/livilajiladafowikosixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s65igjimkvhge5grsunp593js2/redat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/foxamasogugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/19920055600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/5471854473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://408of53crownstreet.com/assets/media/files/tuzomowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830c47a25c8---63334887235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=julington+creek+plantation+estates+hoaPDF 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_off0000f9a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A7 10836 bytes
SHA-256: f962b72ae081a040b465e7580d16edee384fa27b6f1026233b9404c239c2f8ac
font_01_sfnt_off000112a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A0 17320 bytes
SHA-256: ab55beea6192581926ec50d4a3943f22af013c80dda3dd49ac64efd93994fcdd
font_02_sfnt_off00014026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14026 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1