Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b764ac9de2985b0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:08:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4148c7cd662eb1b2c2bf26c2c6ec62c5 SHA-1: 917ff0e2bcfcde5226e2d67ba6bcb4a755ff0fba SHA-256: b764ac9de2985b0aaf3cd4f1e1e6c5d30195a6b9e20a4fc620af934483dd034e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm, with many URLs hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/ravakurafot.pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://michelschuurmans.nl/images/uploads/file/78114123676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.net/data/cms/file/movifozuxemoretireke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://craj-ops.craj.cz/soubory/23130827383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b2050b293d743b7a50a705e57f53a78/69758884788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunghiephuylog.com/upload/files/39496676638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/jotarizavileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents/files/jixetoriko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/613f92731adf9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/lilizixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f909e27a23c89f09d3d665153803bccc/pojan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jf6d5n8bk6iqt21lob0kf1ichc/1246001388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammermoor.net/imagenes/file/85286485415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jimagodijudubepewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/nozopugofexisejotepazera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bosch-elektronarzedzia.pl/catalog/file/tuwalonekoxevigifozef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungam21.com/upfiles/file/1630782226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saveursetsavoirs.fr/image/file/11149512234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146404966f92---bojipowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efde83e5d2---34017543552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/jisadifawatorowen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fizjolech.pl/userfiles/file/74213165735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhrdbekasi.com/webroot/userfiles/files/46202395634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/57219530232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93141151940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=download+f9+moviePDF 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_off0000e46a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46A 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 026e17a1ce75ec935317ec6cf983f8fcb5d837375c03fe589e9fcf9cedb13169
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC34 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 8461bc2dffcd31b038a221829307707c4998ee5ef3f2f601013871e5e7059e03
font_02_sfnt_off00012907.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12907 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1