Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9caf7b9e9b6fd00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 20:56:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 042067e8bd1e7b063cfb37e11c41771f SHA-1: 9af9ca82f113ef565684be00560f0309cffebe72 SHA-256: d9caf7b9e9b6fd0037db3cb5a6dd5e2119b45a2f78d3e298e6881aef5ebf77fa
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1553.005 Security Software Installation

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and trojan delivery attempt. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and instructs the user to disable security software, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The presence of a 'password-protected archive lure' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick the user into downloading and decrypting a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://orthodoxvaidikasanghom.org/userfiles/file/getodem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/rajumajoguzazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/99520739725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebel-moscow.com/content/xuploadimages/file/mukigivofuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijn-nederland.nl/userfiles/file/pedepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativecoms.net/userfiles/file/54734901954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/94241010920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-19/20210919154959246608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popajogudajadeboluko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/wugifududoredokulogudewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e793d75e1a---wubenimulot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/115cf1856991430c704bcba6cf6a649a/7891767808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40569782619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jegewegiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/jotexokuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///zizovaleburor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613172bb07152---13321213025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/kawometulanusobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/wefefujowamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuasathcm.com/uploads/files/33347744649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifeteacher.tw/uploads/files/202109161928492625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aitalk.vn/upload/files/32160626401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=wallhack+cs+1.6+steam+2020PDF 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_off0000d340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD340 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 9f619d1d01be5390a96a1341ece0d58fa72ddbff274a9799fc60e20b91f8cb7f
font_01_sfnt_off000102ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AC 10692 bytes
SHA-256: fd9db01e05783d15ffe6ef7a23a0c6cfb43ad92d9a5a2cee6f482c4a674bd492
font_02_sfnt_off00011b6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1