Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e489e246c7e7342…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-10-05 11:57:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1ebb55161c6be02b23a6ce8259395fd1 SHA-1: 7ff46bc95212fef5614d041fc9f5b45c84a6fa4d SHA-256: 9e489e246c7e73426f9fbe776b80980b74c51c3ea7d9c2160848185863a5a277
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a callback lure heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+dismal+descent+afk+arena PDF link annotation
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/bipidafodova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/mopajeler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.phapluatvietnam.com/upload/ckupload/files/99336645797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37961414159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/83160934155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kirmatas.com/userfiles/file/80517239428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naim.naparts.com/images/fck/file/fixozawofurenokudaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae9601dd834dcd19741027d885f3b1be/38877867103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morebricks.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raxerufawimekudupalewizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615aa86581f51---3817158788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/vikuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/sokaxorovovelubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tindangnhadat.vn/upload/files/65883021570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/natijuxokifepisisanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenobiacultura.it/userfiles/file///16933365459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15031667969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/tusizejixufezixojige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/vilokekumeruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93b991eb0b71be2209ef5035e522274d/sawizikinakisowaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/wetaxutufafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flapboxes.custompackageboxes.com/userfiles/files/62531881587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregoryshow.ru/files/file/7998960475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/josesubidonojugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/42188941759.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://ibnuaffan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puzixipopupanunomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/vovaforadi.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_off0000d935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD935 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f14c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14C 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 855410ebb9e3f4832183805b94435212528f1008e9f0283165c7e7daa64348c4
font_02_sfnt_off00010987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10987 18488 bytes
SHA-256: 0007c85d6aaf29a662280c1d569aeeba6fd4bee741f128faecdb5e438ab6ccd6