Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c904ed0c456e3f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-08-12 12:06:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 7dc45460a9bed7fa9198a0e1aaa2e4eb SHA-1: 87b4969f08a9d2d9ee70dbd27f26d50436437923 SHA-256: 9c904ed0c456e3f11a79a03cc66ed7b274b86904c5654eb12743b6d114722437
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The document body, though unreadable, combined with the 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic suggests a social engineering attempt to trick the user into downloading a malicious file. The presence of multiple unknown URLs hosted on what appear to be compromised WordPress sites further supports this. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8ad063de5---joxutebowom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/47519094654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1953feeikp27agus8s0lbojg5e/zedapizigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa2c422d7e---727131369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/watukoxiduxikidexudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb828f447f5a15c694fe93158606de4d/vuvufoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/25632358287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/38411691077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hplgfh0nse431h8hbjmufemf45/vasuzowosajibozewemutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b706e69c1adfecd1396cc1305b677f5f/37390315653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edc5db25bc8---62594077320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/25844766469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070173277cfd---71736132458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hqqrbsgude5i7j1bmd201rvu4/39213366189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607016fd5deba---80215801526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/22246088660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01a12bab1910b85cfff74fd460a028ed/fugunudagabizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskenecologie.nl/files/xewarivedekurifosidoravas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cairparavel.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/noxogobozibatij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77e4647134407f1cfda798f424879fd6/wikufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/sadixuvaxuxebedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprintfactoryvietnam.com/uploads/files/teweniwogobinaxigivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/farapewinumizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2252db2393---8979110491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63323874897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adk47cimbo8euu2qv63f88selr/fajifevimelegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpoer90h1plmksahgvpim970j1/33793546072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=wonder+full+movie+with+english+subtitles+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_off0000fedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDB 16952 bytes
SHA-256: 43bee7f642ddd6c35bc5e9e43101ac2c04d3d20eb1cd0e09dc7601744de9d9e0
font_01_sfnt_off00012b05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001431c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1431C 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 5fbd4edb24cba1bf876e45805eeedbde3ad75052113555164d9aaa1be8039a01