Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9ab6d35cef3e8d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:02:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 82745793de6d3a6fd969bd3de496fc30 SHA-1: 267c024b7c00e01c4ae12718b685d386dea9a2be SHA-256: d9ab6d35cef3e8d60dc6e0235d2ad0a8f76e22081edf49c0bd685bb8541bfd6a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of a link farm on compromised or disposable domains, combined with a 'download button' lure, suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were extracted, the overall structure and heuristic findings indicate the document is designed to trick the user into downloading a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://jarosi.hu/files/file/21989985710.pdf
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/26051022185.pdf
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6debe47b4---64882118560.pdf
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210624/file/16244752523544.pdf
    • http://hopkinshigh62.com/clients/7/77/7764523e397120ad9b09b1da26998858/File/88621125208.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3018f01638771ee38cb9690965d44484/tajujawobujajoxesusajuf.pdf
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/93165745781.pdf
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qi124boo9nups2daqq28913ffg/kagipegomatijif.pdf
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/31695984967.pdf
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vur77q3oda76gkel366bj3ppoe/47421821930.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99al48ogphboi7blma5u99i7k4/xokipavudujaxawu.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/130a0bc8b119fccaaffccf6e03a017d8/84833257868.pdf
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grfvljljshfodm9h3din1v63ju/3398626273.pdf
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/24704357585.pdf
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/sigerub.pdf
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1621343811.pdf
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alcha6vqo6a105tc7r5gt88ie2/85859810648.pdf
    • http://mankatomnclassof71.com/clients/e/e0/e0e8961458839910853a12af65841b27/File/26478427017.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1fee187cc2---wabonelikuk.pdf
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/95628924772.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9e6c2551af074b3cd4278d296db957c/360223364.pdf
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf9a68e7b8972815fb99f4314e0b145e/kinomisujo.pdf
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65b3d37d424f5391dd3d7ad2d104ce4d/vujegeluvuzafeba.pdf
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/nilido.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+sims+4+booty+sliders
    • 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_off0000ebb8.bin
bd0ac5a000b570328822155412c1c286c5388a7075b28b9e69cd39e923c2564a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB8 10544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000103c5.bin
e57ea56517f1df03ced8818851e0eb93de0774049664dfa0f5b88f645ee4db1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C5 16888 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013002.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13002 16792 bytes