Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9db7fa1bba467f51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 17:15:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 05dad37c9a7473638fba795fbbafec90 SHA-1: 92dbf83fdaba8c416126082a2b13d59e16dda9ee SHA-256: 9db7fa1bba467f51e166c364442822fc34730737568885c1b9ffc05fdbb8dfe2
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF document is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing and trojan threat. It contains multiple links to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'clipboard command lure' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to copy and paste commands into a shell, a common technique for executing downloaded payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+file+iso+windows+7+professional+64+bit PDF link annotation
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0baqeqikt3jouik70k023kosj7/65409206289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dalagipupukoniwumumude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showdoimovel.com/files/files/tadali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a04320bb5---38773906411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audyt.rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/10210381710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f379337b1f---29840415200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at2-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/rarugajapofugudunuwelefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidomusica.com/uploads/files/202109111927467761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euromarkcreations.com/new/fck_img/file/sametipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/jafatabozenixikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a341758b43---57163820575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136044c64510---85250062495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-junghan.com/userData/board/file/kafopifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emaaravm.net/upload/files/papanovogasezuxoxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bba60d557234fa329b71811f7b843a7f/22054086566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/81414161704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/75822002541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/potikaximigajivonawinoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-crooks.com/userfiles/file/pamigamovanawilepamunide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doranakaxovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhkygroup.com/luutru/files/91153152334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9db1f31b9bf47cbbea0db11da9eeb90/92515632095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/20929978712.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_off000143c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143C7 20284 bytes
SHA-256: fbc2f88d211f74c4a11c604b71a6fb75e9405e539281228f2ca510aadad8c0fd
font_01_sfnt_off000179c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179C6 11016 bytes
SHA-256: a9fb108b801f6893b8b871f845475e53b0868d2f23fa4c5c8e67175799e54692
font_02_sfnt_off0001936d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1936D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1