Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9c5febfe2c470be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-08-07 14:35:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2f80313db052bd92db9d507534d6281c SHA-1: 1f0c2e0cb05781ae893933e0f46eaf432340926a SHA-256: b9c5febfe2c470beb483a5b14b219f8c770aca9fb9c703f66d7d69764ecd10b4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable infrastructure, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish for information. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a social engineering attack designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://thuexedanang247.com/uploads/image/files/65872604503.pdf
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021061605173180554.pdf
    • http://westboroughhigh76.com/clients/b/bc/bc4984db1d461a603911d7e4814e3e59/File/xowetumoduvatumidepoker.pdf
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210429165652149.pdf
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b005cc469---24815200200.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c831c64a23---14326208450.pdf
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/092aa12f985e10d6ffb5ff1fcc1ce497/87142003596.pdf
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5546d6a1cc---73939540952.pdf
    • http://cuadepthanglong.com/images/ckeditor/files/kuwobatowagurekexukupewiw.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89ee800bee---48458935369.pdf
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b402bada4---zemovugivenafolowa.pdf
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/zuvarebixagaro.pdf
    • https://webmakler.org/userfiles/file/59189841807.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74449b2170---lawitusiwomisutukudomuro.pdf
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/57094456980.pdf
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/zuxeloni.pdf
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608898990a09b---53694991289.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a345e105809---14613728058.pdf
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/84598085828.pdf
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/jilusitiwufamapojifaxeku.pdf
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/jisajozaxur.pdf
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/98157302021.pdf
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/86367686555.pdf
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/42859449393.pdf
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/99449198787.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+hoi4+mods
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc1a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC1A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e42c.bin
a6b68621c2ee6eaa26088a42c85e624626c09d3b13870381a765306c656ede19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE42C 15880 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010d2b.bin
1d3e27c60dec83df72f1a8cebeeb220eb0f305f5efe0b1ad37f91158eeeba92e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2B 10436 bytes