Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d9707169bd1c193…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:52:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a4456b384fd56ad39de96296a4aef4ee SHA-1: daf305dd1212c59c05f73880b6c29e583ce268ee SHA-256: 9d9707169bd1c193be1336191a76e9d73edd7aebeb2168464e0dc0788e88388c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: 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. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of a QR code lure further supports the phishing or redirection intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/wibewirenanetotala.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/nijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d9377ad70a---71022838654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/fuxawisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/dezotezuvevalotexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69318167686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phuketvillarentalandservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34034643114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/68917258865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohondamientay.com/upload/files/63763305634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613797c03b85f---wipamiwogiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auburn-companies.com/userfiles/files/xofonubavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104408017.linker.tw/files/12206797995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/32255202651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butagallery.com/userfiles/files/41596116820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/ruwuxiwesopofiwavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63638ced088158e15a4ae8e560f2085e/93136020585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laulumaja.fi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tekofupidedejifutumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f3916ab15---60394367701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webminmax.com/userfiles/file/23341123481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myagreement.com/UserFiles/file/tulamugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domesticsolutionsagency.com/userfiles/file/11849740724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imapbook.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/89410548381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=android+qr+code+scanner+examplePDF 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_off0000ce92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE92 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 626e13e7c37d03a4677fc5cd78226f64109f3ef044350b238051cbe1e00e8298
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001152c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152C 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 2f6af4ed17d4d101040b1585c7f532ce3f64c0c8013289620fdf88f1ce21b16f