Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c0260a0c50fbc8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:12:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b8d0a0f98eb08665b5d1d0cb3647ed48 SHA-1: 45eb1ef5c0737a6c0057b49786b4d12959a62444 SHA-256: 9c0260a0c50fbc8d9e55f3a728d677a5f1da9e73343924796b50fe99a873f9a3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This 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 domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic indicating a 'visual download button lure' reinforce the phishing and download pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ylpqzl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6161606654.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8957980781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5knbt2ib6rm7rt707f3klktava/36425949360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdee494cddd---dirazebomaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102471b18dc7---21763500711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dad8c2406f---vefetixinewovusuvazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/mositeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/pavojefewasutufowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-video.ru/upload/files/38906395605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d312igbedbr62eet9uccgpv1s6/7148207803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weldcor.ca/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18606124189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/52996847985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/237d9c66b6df1f7b1c6d89e0ccd4fde4/22092338844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17fd0ce4a5af20ed1f29d84566fa0893/durogajidiberewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18c2523305e57e057fc84805ae528b00/57432682278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prm6g9i4s516ocd8d08he2uo81/pitufesalopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenstatues.com/uplds/file/20498542498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/19902218133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/images/blog//file/86797119514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimoandyuethui.com/clients/69227/File/dexalerela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/85388014121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/42910289578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaika.in/images/documents/files/titaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=basic+computer+mcq+pdf+in+gujaratiPDF 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_off0000dbd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD4 17232 bytes
SHA-256: a3e27cef461e3f3d388b5c0f78882ed6b2425ccea7967d84b794c760bb33ae28
font_01_sfnt_off0001087d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12094 11348 bytes
SHA-256: 1ad5ff725699b66f45d31e420b8db906a3fed5e658e231d107be2c4b8fa5dec4