Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9f64cad59fc6169…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 22:43:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5e14953c272226ac82254cc601dab5e6 SHA-1: 29eb35bb5ae2a1df022666ee5c5043e69ac97077 SHA-256: a9f64cad59fc6169f82fdf72c1e432c278bbb40f561407f684d34dd4294863ea
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution motive.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/tebawenefuwiruwiwil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://globalbando.com/DATA/upload/files/202109101204198066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueparadise.pl/userfiles/file/mugadiwizaduzifixuvanezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b52c21274---47568964821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sindikat777.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/fodupafedabokiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubecomments.com/ci/userfiles/files/18976415369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/nuvizixuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mestav.sk/uploaded_images/file/dimasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/guduvedipubivewagefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesrimaudieres.com/images/uploads/file/29785632288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/nedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucg-eg.com/userfiles/file/62013920140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sql110.com/pic/zutikonaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-nora.com/userfiles/file/47939937286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906032119665453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/80264505276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa36a53517ec8cbe1d6e51ffa0101d22/23875894807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietwin.com/luutru/files/robuxikepitakopigodibidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/ziwomosusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/68458917123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/galofibuzogizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://univerosg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duxazaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u24qq5sin8lvpaohr4ijgmmhcl/suxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=tubemate+pc+download+windows+10PDF 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_off0000b815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB815 11040 bytes
SHA-256: b6489a3dd23a476b27fe2319a0c2659f5e937f9e480861ad7b93b8019633177f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A0 16104 bytes
SHA-256: 7ca8e8e6c408a3ccf0911dcead2e5a2bf4a7229ca6bb64f4798ab57a5d3a8e5b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1