Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e0b09a40930fb25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 19:48:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 50c4ffebc04f3d9a947274df00017e02 SHA-1: 7be931e5f557adf1c2ab9756ad281e1c11e2e7fa SHA-256: 9e0b09a40930fb25e602403101ea7619ebc76100c608c81dcb3690bf99971f4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a URL with 'windows+7+super+lite+download' in its query parameters indicates a lure for users seeking software, which is then likely to lead to a malicious download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://fosterfreezesantarosa.com/uploads/files/40702671692.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kattliv.com/kattliv/admin/userfiles/file/52118683425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/80149876927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gegefikufixarutomabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htbestcomputer.com/media/ftp/file/xesuvivozejikudaxaxola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b82214cc2c9f2c168bffb667616ecfd/dadaripasoruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioesflores.pl/obrazy/file/leziwigibogixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preprod.app-nomads.com/ugecam/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82997283904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indoshaolinkungfusociety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/bekimukibazumumubuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75513766466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/zonaxikakoruriwinerub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/67701323062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kancelaria-perfect.pl/app/webroot/media/files/63872424794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9fa05ada9---37476593244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/fogutifekodisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c16f25109---39226528685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/dukepivajozesalefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613392ea74606---viwapimilitoxonadekiliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0b04f7449bc725000aab891948c3eb4/povowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/45735831152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhavezbozi.cz/data/file/36037524357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/mibubuputamugemoxuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group-com.gbintl.com/ci/userfiles/files/digox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a91b04cc08---32080305425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=windows+7+super+lite+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_off0000e327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE327 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB39 17916 bytes
SHA-256: a48f99bed3c51d206d95fae3347287c9378cdccee21d5ce815cb87308c2c5a96
font_02_sfnt_off0001293e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293E 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 70379b04633e399297ffe830f4a2af876a6ccc4190bacf793d7d1caf0e9baaa0