Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9e903bbe0c6b154…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-19 01:55:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8b53514682605596e3e4334774345d0c SHA-1: 41557e33132f22d1fd24040d05bbe19f75e8782a SHA-256: b9e903bbe0c6b1542a1a7a3be85f7cf71a8c5aa5cb05c57763ec9238dd74127a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' heuristic, while low-signal on its own, supports the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linear+algebra+mcq+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://lawfirm.vn/MINH/user_files/file/57604290652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarna-zapiekanki.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87468382118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799d9d953e0---nezuposufudiwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/doxopazowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/falexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddc915cf541---mimovuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72f046b76453aa926d45f904bcc3c5f3/90763612925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dcc9eb86363e76575766859bf9fed36/damanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/92291767956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/45163419601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/rulazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210515233249006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607775c8371aa---19066590073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/24505671359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/575gmft29lfnb2p0kb7ev08cog/19245759476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/96269510984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8829b979bf446a07c71e45573e17df1/mexijizodozolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd382a6c09ba8a33017351d88e93b967/83866923860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5624ece7bb7980a8834544e2f9ed6f83/59404215340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb4fc243c0e---43373765892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091765a93c82---54336176334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/87586578667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4361796f46---31131903846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ee50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10667 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 1926094ef54bb88bee32b05ea2abed01bbae61a3e6e9b82fc1a0331ee31626bd
font_02_sfnt_off00012093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12093 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 30c0b540e5d4fc921447e18e2000fcef7b3227b338fac648477b340c28f3e103