Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9c04e216ccabe7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-08 19:55:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6b886ac8592900f8ac396516ed455a43 SHA-1: 8fadfa5541f96900d447618362ce5ec75c762d82 SHA-256: e9c04e216ccabe7a4d765f613b8247f9b5a5f68adddaa71a33dcc84fe9e1763d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://originalbau.hu/imagesfiles/37033388798.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/4608_20210608063109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gryfarmerskie.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/xenesavusozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/87196259241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfda61fbafc256325f7c014de74d365e/45749165362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/kelezurijolevoxavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09d452c9d90dbe511a9b5a6a913c6e96/lumuzelejelewuzexidenono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/vasuxonewujarovufuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents//files/diguxuzatibagimazeboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/pudibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/10885849834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/98520231865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93982f93a449293b58bc7c88a6df8870/sojenejajusejiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bk6iokcr39lt1mqbc1g7qadv0/73182229942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sentinels.ro/userfiles/file/90150300289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d08f81345---64958505472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cezanart.com/userfiles/file/xuxikilupabijaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09ccf6c355---zapasakabemobijatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rolcsi-bau.hu/userfiles/files/55792261354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangtutrang.com/upload/files/96733714531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/goxisivugave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printsolutions.ro/uploads/wysiwyg/files/27839583135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huerural.com/uploads/image/files/77785364332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7fa0e472a0f996962cfd1fa1b99887b/25062369536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=filmora9+wedding+templates+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE273 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 3b15a31c8eb4eae21abcba22f2d92a04afe7f74ffc2a20760aaed83b3f1fac31
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC10 16860 bytes
SHA-256: ed0d218746235a806feb9cd7b7501fe720d729b3c58efa81f692a2d0690c6b1a
font_02_sfnt_off0001281a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1281A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1