Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9fb0e561477990a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:30:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f08f30900b2db6288b6d6851785b03aa SHA-1: 2edfba9cd205057dcbf6f24c4928ab7dc33b5f8c SHA-256: e9fb0e561477990af06803d91af18de6c4b06db11059c040b737664ab0e5f766
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites. The presence of a 'download button' lure and numerous external URLs, some hosted on disposable domains, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=internet+download+manager+full+version PDF link annotation
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jideramozudupedibaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/nebegubatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uedsm52r73nlvjg76s5d70blnq/vupevekevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krupongs.com/images/file/9861523185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyezi.cn/upload/7370067174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/debakalusadekefubuxowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe778e83f3---fajirugitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56992611375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattleteriyaki3.com/uploads/files/rivurat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/walevepedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinshifm.com/userfiles/file/depuxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomingmakedonia.com/files/files/52969911524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekadc.pl/userfiles/userfile/8671267434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/jutakewudugopesutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kmkmekanik.com/upload/ckfinder/files/88718725608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4darchitecture.org/img/all/budusovijopivibikinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://excitechem.com/userfiles/file/61350218249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://issaproject.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74475981252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jezirka-biobazeny.cz/UserFiles/File/pininonizizosusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316e747c74f---lubezajabaxumidaforowega.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_off0000be0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE0C 17332 bytes
SHA-256: a9a0e5a7dd79dbb2a2ba5f101a6561be8532a78548d283f82d60036f906aa0f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000eab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB2 10900 bytes
SHA-256: e4843024ae570220a36390672efb49a6143006488a636b6ecaec3bf5595652b6
font_02_sfnt_off000103c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1