Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9f5c51e146c9ddf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 22:53:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6a210ae5f28ff77fd20676848f97ecfe SHA-1: 6deb0b355dbf4e4918210bac5cf76e113039047d SHA-256: b9f5c51e146c9ddf7c0bd469ccdd9d0c12f2d7b5fa977b396ff039b6e554cdd3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites and disposable hosting services, likely to facilitate the download of a second-stage payload. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggest a deliberate attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://basealimentare.it/webroot/files/fck_uploads/File/51084505835.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/wikamifivefetudituwabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kpaujcnvc34keoedl1mdf0hvu5/84675328700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/83278970396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135de0406593---xuzewibuseboxidalexuram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57o2fchqnmua9kcs824jq1071n/28135221689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8cc1d8b25071d288e0d6ab97031ee33/fawem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slabowidzacy.smprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34989843101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65289723695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brincandoeaprendendo.com/fotosempresa/files/89209908110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613536e679aea---25697821239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d29987fb58b3f7b2414091080bcd6580/mavatoladafafabojomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210906164839_9cp9v8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2winit.com/Files/files/nimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/reforiwejim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1630789348_dc4dee40fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc3bb268f1---89280403873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.com/userfiles/files/78980630730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/zorewozitinexewiwiwakemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienphat.vn/imagesflashupload/file/tijokikoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungam21.com/upfiles/file/1631082432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/mopadiwawabitifogorage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryanoomen.nl/uploadimages/files/xazabejoduxaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109101929107464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a13b07244e---47943601056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=biology+1st+year+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000d8c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C5 11020 bytes
SHA-256: fda3cdf5bdebc47630ef5c1e89576c3b149266b4293c4061693a7153d73a84fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A4C 17836 bytes
SHA-256: ffe48b02ebf124955ade694b8938af3c0db9a3cd39b684ff062df5af8d34ab7e