Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9f37601283a2b43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 04:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fab8a21b5e70ba7fbe5658f703fe95d3 SHA-1: 8ac0ef33ec1ae788ba9e752262f76343a3740379 SHA-256: b9f37601283a2b4377b2f347e551a7096938697133398d064cf63fa7c2e75b30
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and employs social engineering by luring users to install browser extensions or updates. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.texaco.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29528825610.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/33696220525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fef369c01cef9c380d82ce671c1da55f/buxibuwipofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forma8.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seo-methodes.com/userfiles/file/zojefasadavejipuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stepweystudy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139389a94de1---69901012060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/74495150859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs-edu.com/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/vilutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48071917850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/xizari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efe15e8c3c---68354492332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsst77.ru/upload/files/xubajebibasuxefudizasipip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/78324985834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/56872939574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613488a6768ad---64248196634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd5e130376---feredeluzilelapubegewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-tlg.com/files/file/jukomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/20219215295858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/mumidus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/pewamisigud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatvan.in/userfiles/file/vanusiwobepebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascend.sut.ac.th/ce/2017/src/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50634140328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090320440488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starcity-vinhomes.vn/app/webroot/img/files/vemiwejenevipojokata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+factory+reset+surf+onn+tabletPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30fc6f804b382778f095c812ea18745d/17226392226.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_off0000dc67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC67 17952 bytes
SHA-256: 0f0ea710b8847e0cedd9d6c7f6ac7aed094cbc7988c768708c08d97c1e43958f
font_01_sfnt_off00010a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A7A 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 4e1a394da2c2fe0ddbe260e53360033ae6d3b079138efcf065c41984464d2e8c
font_02_sfnt_off00012328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12328 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1