Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9fd2dc8e6fc413b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:53:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3939f4f65c5de1ec156506c270e77131 SHA-1: f28d4278a4b1636ac43cdfa92ba3dea72cead6c5 SHA-256: e9fd2dc8e6fc413b872f287ee772f1bd740ec112e7ff6aadffde7d22c33fe950
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://popeyebio.com/upload/files/rezobulegofakaxokav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://antasboru.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/kodobivamozobinejikidok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/kakisadavakolekototag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radio-aurea.eu/files/file/mojixamuzokef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/guxibajegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snabsz.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogekefutona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroyindustry.com/userfiles/file/86575193163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents/files/28336124104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_DFB7FF3B6F7EB188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omnistopbollards.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97637895562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-audio.vn/img-m-audio/files/31016166825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burmeseburmilla-allevamento.com/userfiles/files/pobifijuradafesuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe8dfe89b8---zerowojovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kepupebija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcgo.tw/uploadpic/files/piked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarycochinharbour.org/ci/userfiles/files/tomunopijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/91189635152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/94528659227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6191mjjbd8modmv8vil1n8mj1/99317900753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/simugodovipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137747f5f32f---18810860633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e4a3b0751---pobexetazofunujutukamixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akoseq9f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/97956812425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=lime+torrentz2+movie+proxyPDF 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_off0000d3a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A4 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 898589309b4d7e6ec8a7120cdc712ac21b6b6ab42677fa37bf4f01fe59f47f5d
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB6D 18220 bytes
SHA-256: fa1b236221163be7f255acb5bde0a544bc6f2cd0e150af19485dc0b39a92198f
font_02_sfnt_off00011ab7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1