Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bfe7f13e571f48f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:51:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 02365417128d9bc590f36db7762d688b SHA-1: 6996db2fbc8bfbbf3b58653642f343f33fa33c7c SHA-256: 9bfe7f13e571f48f55f07ecfd929bffb13fd1e4d50c53f95969a56404be44663
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious URLs, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hard+c+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ca4a72fb6---xanojovobudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/10559376572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbaa5eccda8---34421850257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c191002e6d9792d15003555fd22534fc/73046987395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/merawimolunad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkia.org/kingkong/userfiles/files/37813975994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17ed90ce53---91576717743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609668fadc40e---rawowupawerenare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56c553173eeaaa0eb1cf8f54c5b1baf1/35077409286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c70c983b3---zifinokazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89705720199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703f8f4d9a9---5298465313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windmill-bv.com/userfiles/files/69111785499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvientantao.com/img_duhoc/files/pamusunegaperovunefarogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/53475091631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxuvoxolezimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/35470493384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexuspolymers.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dizukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iviltra.lt/images/files/penuwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf88b8f004---33533163872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yalcinsezer.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dosilitogituwaxidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/dunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://needychild.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jogetosonupojajurize.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_off0000f726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF726 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 95685f8f81d31a575d6f9ea5ab3381a2bf15f26a89f2c2f09fd8e0e8a7cbe965
font_01_sfnt_off00010fb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB9 18820 bytes
SHA-256: 31960b203199ee74a4c3dcc7738bfee04a4432ff4bd4d7d6372810bfcd1b965c
font_02_sfnt_off000140db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1