Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f8827160bc3b7c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 04:58:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e4b15e6fc7989937a40d9bb68cf1560b SHA-1: 76d4f9cc0d660368f9a8a0ae2aeccd83866d86b0 SHA-256: 9f8827160bc3b7c3df63c4e056f693296dcc496e0d19b0b38b475e5f75ed8495
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent. The embedded URLs likely serve as lures for downloading a second-stage payload, possibly related to phishing or trojan activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+vice+city+stories+ppsspp+download+highly+compressed PDF link annotation
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140eb934b7b8---729218504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161436c501d59f---94486537393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315c9dcd88d---52164273491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/buwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/69765645536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyela.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/18219331537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/24685585574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/79078017811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54562745645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdbau-rauch.at/fofunolofarisaximirutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/binemopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personal.sut.ac.th/chantira/port/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutapukiramegoraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134dfaca89f7---pepobebatunibedej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeon-dev.com/uploads/files/202109060545252500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/40433668600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/54235030102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminentland.com/admin/userfiles/files/fazimuxifotunisemokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://receptabc.hu/images_banner/files/51659189019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.com/contents/files/10939406242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igk-lilienthal.de/downloads/15605246419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglory.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61779514925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluestandard.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53206479782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06865c5ccaa8294556d0e36df4d56b09/29151557620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countryclaim.cz/userfiles/file/detavonevokif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bosingels.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powibosidegizepazanux.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_off0000c87d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC87D 19632 bytes
SHA-256: 15eeaa8ae03bc4b2272db515c53e219b7b71bb238bc5ad2c2b9e6da69f2808d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3E 11264 bytes
SHA-256: d0b5da1f060de2ef8ff4d108f97f9b3f91d9239c6e91de4dc3cda0255ddec2a2
font_02_sfnt_off00011563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11563 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1