Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9174f0e3a488397…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 10:06:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9273613cf79a9a2047d0d3ae5eeae13e SHA-1: 0990177caed6acff99d7f1ab67a84e8549c5cf02 SHA-256: b9174f0e3a488397bc2607be18a08595a61f2ac1c235cee46e0292d6754a8b1e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a user-luring workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707caf4d289---66347976903.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1c00b42ad---telatujupesezububonakufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5baf620cc66e5a52842035549b9ceb87/13339533135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ea8c1a2ea892d392bbfab0b9b84339a/danefonuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81162bf608acc02b75521b7a5c751651/28148099496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48ac16aa52786488ec513a2ea3a338d7/padajuzejapuvona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/18080202176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/zelofoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd7dc67a349d912b5b32a9cbf42744c4/bogaxaxewizamixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/74921837019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094835be4b5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm6e01ft46csesm7cggehu0j8m/savuvebilavalelulojadotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6525f3f623db6a53d0dfff2afb23eb95/49265261555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd918b35e2---wolofupefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/tonobagalawerenuraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airfa.it/userfiles/file/6983494886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/172dacb04aa142e9c2b95587b79b0e6c/43949668227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/sapomuribesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/221b347668ec2b2ad848112ce4a94b8c/wepogevedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ce00c87c0---46197230399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc6afc69b99---kemenememados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=remove+one+page+from+pdf+macPDF 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_off0000e669.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE669 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE80 10668 bytes
SHA-256: da0919a2bbcbdef1a378d2344fb749d55cbc4db719e79063d0fd5081cc16d442
font_02_sfnt_off000116b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B5 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 329a357867461de685dcdda50c8d120323f9cca5121fb059815a6064c8065c6b