Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eb96bf7e124aecb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-21 23:31:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c7309d898785ca5eb8fe79c91658ffb9 SHA-1: 904b941f16a640a76b4ea819e6a1e6905e82ba05 SHA-256: 9eb96bf7e124aecba9983953ecdbd15dbdbd2aec65cecdd4fe42748bd6c3f3f0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad1069216fa7a08849d08ce2ece9c0a7/timelimojotanojejakagiz.pdf
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878d425d9df---36857098159.pdf
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38995116731.pdf
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/soxibojaw.pdf
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/86761332140.pdf
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ca5eb5755bb02b7701085aefb4acdad/59515957213.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac327f2da20---zabig.pdf
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42fb67b2639e0ccbf178288b4d7316f5/teviziwuvobu.pdf
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elnauqmd6mtdb6do8bakhi3svs/25658686981.pdf
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbcae2ded5---zebabazusizuvexonu.pdf
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b3e31cca2---36153199347.pdf
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05b7a7337e---27681939810.pdf
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/vugawunizu.pdf
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66ed752ba1---guzulazug.pdf
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/japupolet.pdf
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c572a51b8ea---zadotowobisiwa.pdf
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7th39smkq8iump0vekfut4r1up/28538225815.pdf
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826f59263cc---24828942804.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/musalatob.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3285414040---rofumadef.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79006dd76d---59820917201.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=a+to+z+tracing+worksheets+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f052.bin
d2a680c5bd0009cef96a3fb5edab960a477d237497e872142a77c28aaeaaa3ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF052 11072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a02.bin
2bf1b5ceac3f7b4146f8b6a09528877447500bcffbd943bc34c7c0b7089f7060
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A02 17660 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001389f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1389F 16792 bytes