Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fe069cf51cb080c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:36:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 154ab3a19a25de1733ed1555272bd668 SHA-1: fb8abe856d2d54de2c81a657a98186a34443ba17 SHA-256: 9fe069cf51cb080c3f71e0f9b6ac215580d4215ad4119a249e50641496398667
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1553.004 Security Software Blocking

This PDF document was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Notably, the document includes instructions to disable security software, a high-risk indicator for malicious intent.

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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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.
  • 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://xeroxexpres.cz/userfiles/file/jozewuzakoterare.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd70baaf13---baxibiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0bd7c074194584ba3372b900c8a319a/gorexemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ripedzn.com/app/webroot/files/fckeditor/file/folozajafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nb-magnet.com/upload/files/98850756822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31511019640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dopuskvsro.ru/UserFiles/9448320064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/ruvutopakigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/75010399362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/ladilebogowow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/86278724684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halead.com/uploadfile/1630830023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/40013616699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b519140dda---jotawoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.instalacionescueto.com/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imapbook.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/73843063027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bfcc90734e---nuseximazapidezibax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/gofukorudelizetekinepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/gubenetorezekulojepavebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0976ae6ab---xidekepujofafofuzozima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5703n1n6999-6a55.com/contents/files/xuzekupobazovamakupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coolscape.info/images/files/19106979388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platcometals.com/images/file/66713739680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/46117846686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=android+task+killer+that+actually+worksPDF 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_off0000e882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE882 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10094 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 9bd3154c3922d1013ff18e8852b7d56a0bdf46d515aa8d3e0987890b9930d624
font_02_sfnt_off00012de8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE8 10840 bytes
SHA-256: a4b50c5d2d528d3afe100ff0cb91bc57f326c1dc5734460accf0a25e2be20cae