Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e63d20b6c49b62c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 20:46:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3b7a20a588ba2d9b38679a8d870cb9b2 SHA-1: 04db53c408b651c7a02a8de83f17f2ad7f04b857 SHA-256: 9e63d20b6c49b62cff136ef1133970384ec221205f4347803fa677b51d1e5392
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a 'download button' lure and instructions for a 'password-protected archive' suggest a phishing or social engineering attack designed to trick users into downloading a payload. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads, further support this, acting as a link farm to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fff566e9a0ebce4796161cd5909b6607/40510696476.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85c6bed45d7a7755659d5b90ed17d9b2/fotoziwebikofawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/85314603866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learn-atdi.com/uploads/files/wasalobawilalafitevuxofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/95769221368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liweisteel.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61435874240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awards.nl/img/cms/file/11422744822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartdeal.pl/files/upload/files/konumunofilifutodobudadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/pegawabidiwidazera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/mabako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novastal.pl/userfiles/file/bonerosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/36083179180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a9q8378hu4n6q3d1u84c8vru6/95772399635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balaton.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/15460829807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93550240441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65796044217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613048bdbe7ac---96317562230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/9924652128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eefe99877e34af69c33e2c763b69b8f8/jopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130197d94da7---bitadujugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/dorifalujasekinomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/fomorimixozadiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kriosispl.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34281916059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eetravel.net/file/nefagitujatomozatibokusod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=windows+loader+to+active+windows+7+ultimatePDF 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_off0000d703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD703 10824 bytes
SHA-256: be7e500e967dc18a397a677173ee190a8fb6d24d046dd3e772ecd7d481b61125
font_01_sfnt_off0000f013.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF013 18760 bytes
SHA-256: d400898bebb862a603c76dc382605277d34c87ce92af8470772f61093e063d0b
font_02_sfnt_off0001209d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1209D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1