Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e793becb7d19452…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 08:15:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 9891c43697ce6df4219fbbf5ccdcfdc3 SHA-1: a132c16e63a22f89b8b1c1fa32876a170d6c4616 SHA-256: 9e793becb7d194523c5da70a1dbcbe43a3edbecea9b21071c0191cb741e12593
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and URL distribution are indicative of a malicious PDF designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • 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://k85shj16h-561lt.com/contents/files/50000942805.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://munnartourism.com/uploads/file/xiladikazamukazadalenokij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77948227102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.info/upload/files/vopanimokovokepukoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/73205808735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiraz.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6726405399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaie.org/userfiles/file/20210909062226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.com/userfiles/file/45246466110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalipublisher.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nisixapezuxinibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profm.hu/files/file/30729619702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://washlounge.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2605963569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39871754164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/2242737070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/32294013670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/53166957280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/98747102200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/rarejudivesev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmrh.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/22788225590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/47803102358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6br5as31s50v4p04pssli5pj9q/jeros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbcp8of9mr852jpleo89016k9a/xanabufowow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/sevuvugemegomanolimifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/586775160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/40137700792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=f1+manager+hack+apkPDF 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_off0000d94d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94D 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 8ed87fe014b7f19881adbf213dcc70be48765a7731a266be236d4adab783e159
font_01_sfnt_off00010686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10686 10420 bytes
SHA-256: fa9cba6bed6575480d28c4d2033fea586a46769688ed370d33ca82f6f0b488b8
font_02_sfnt_off00011de9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1