Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9da6482ea6284c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:56:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e5be14d324d5edde59700027c5146a58 SHA-1: 9cea73deb31f93d6029cb278e660b36de4edc30a SHA-256: d9da6482ea6284c8995b6641956491c766469413bc907cf1104c06ea59f71e0e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+pokemon+fire+red+gba+rom PDF link annotation
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f25b0043e0dcdb91b34c2a1471fcfff1/fesozurege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitk.ru/_files/buxovidabapusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--krmer-dnnebacke-1kb72b.de/files/file/bananugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3899cbe2ab9d477a82e72e4e893d07eb/37562472625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/38087504504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5dd83c383cb0d02454f9d40d84c2e90/diwomexeweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swatimishra.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/doxapifuzepiliboruxalari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/tifelaloxugolotenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.cn/uploadfile/files/kixosuxigokamarekizeked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d49816012805aac6b6cd74bcdadfa29/suxufabeluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/95715303345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpnovelty.com/upload/files/nerezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a899.net/userfiles/file/72410223543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balalajka.nu/media/32587975230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4560371920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613448942b2e9---87377379345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/13862785454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://threadworx.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/86113157023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagymester.com/userfiles/file/75073919582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/tadodojezebudidipudiloso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/funasofuzutaxadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/99741130265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/xifadezowumaruporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614290bb7ee5e---94977707456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/59509340815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinenieuwsbriefversturen.nl/gebruikers/afbeeldingen/3711806907.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_off0000d7af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC1 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 069292fc7f7279ca66de7ebdb32ff1d43a8d105442759fd6256765f438cc135a
font_02_sfnt_off00011db9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB9 10896 bytes
SHA-256: de42f04ed1e4acf6f2f137f9297f31fb7e4888aa39d8e36bfe91a6eedd1ad35c