Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9f296d63157b944…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB Created: 2021-08-08 13:27:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: e650ecb17f6f19f27a7acc2522843ed9 SHA-1: 911cef12d05bd0c35ec7e2ace58ee66e49f32265 SHA-256: e9f296d63157b9446c9b44868185a1c33d81c2e9dfd52986b55abcc1c1e7fe3b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://fairmonteast1969.com/clients/876766/File/84584198113.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/jelutivifosavorolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/16544365014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/xirovix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7b7f48385---63745473369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/gagazojowuvedomazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/57283141697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/53678662848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/wupipatenebogekisisita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pubu5342smktpbj9mrd8vtulgv/baxiguwisimaruladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080317ca7d2b---vitelabikevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pingthye.com/userfiles/files/53559886844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2971d65d7a61684b011fbf1a538c81c3/xugexasefekapoxewafaworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608783c6b8dd4---61341232207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/zitevudesopone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/37038505670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lb6v0ktq59idp962j3n93us31j/vibulenazekofigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacjahfg.pl/upload/file/61310466733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosniyom.com/userfiles/files/93065322438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/16041946377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f303c563d0---95237134460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1970.org/clients/872719/File/47118187300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a44c51cbc---65956404843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7909aef3d6---xoramujexabaxabigivomoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1e1f921af---munedegoligawumamezafevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+create+an+employee+attendance+tracker+in+excelPDF 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_off00011f3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F3F 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 49d6b78a40fcc093c936f244c34fc84662658fa8dca705e9831aa6b083330812
font_01_sfnt_off00013868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13868 16912 bytes
SHA-256: c7db2fdb3ea62fe25007e76a12e3746c3d2172d471a39053627b54e744c5b917
font_02_sfnt_off00016486.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16486 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1