Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eb6505f6be3ee90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:38:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 41e6a871ab713c7ce3728108aa42ee9c SHA-1: 29ee743cc3168d56c75b828fea0380cfbe7b5f20 SHA-256: 9eb6505f6be3ee90cef56137b65eb084033d424bd8843ddc62713ab0099fea13
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised upload storage or disposable hosting, likely to serve a second-stage payload. The presence of a download button lure and callback phishing pretext further supports a social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9879

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
  • 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.
  • 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 http://zae.me/datafiles/file/81547334918.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/gujuboruzimujija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/bilujepezajopazupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcircle.club/userfiles/file/bisujozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60282294786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210908_113756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613714bbbae3a---nopirevinadurirozibajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gedayapi.com/userfiles/file/takabenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/rovalisodokewogugodiful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwsedan.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/pobamofiwexebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.eu/userfiles/file/sopamimamibukuxevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/12973850924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongguohuachun.com/d/files/supukepimilemegeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chingchia.com/uploads/files/202109061520374395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcp-ranstadt.us/files/zaluwiragelefubofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dff46126de---91091436887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/rivoputobiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutachterbewertung.de/userfiles/file/53741859074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133644abd4a6---62440600853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e72722e54---duduge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20219162324471680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medarbindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/likizozibakagigejozedujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/86825096683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6abfe64cec68b5aaf73507c9819d0e/18721091836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yunglin.com/uploadpic/files/91034328733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161434434ef81f---vizisotivile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://touristclub.in/userfiles/file/95246598967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+note+4+software+updatePDF 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_off000111cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000129e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E1 18764 bytes
SHA-256: b3d78b0a829924dd0c07d1538dbec269a2b9c186c56b040ce33c468b3ea9518e
font_02_sfnt_off00015a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A1E 10924 bytes
SHA-256: aa6b7846eea2fe2694401a7c7e51be099832080f8cef970877101eb38a192360