Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9052878911087b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:46:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e419526edb8662ce04aad9beb3a294ce SHA-1: 46758c23293e57de7fdff32339972f7c950de1f2 SHA-256: f9052878911087b633d7e27c4b272a039936ac0263f2511a4553c32d19a92256
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, including compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. Embedded JavaScript was also detected, which could be used to facilitate the download or execution of a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/vapusakinebinoviludajor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/72476334549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18244419eb8e01d98eb7128edd725b47/zitamatizafimaloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents/files/nizunovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.group/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///4738323757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/mesalakiratobinolorojozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/18648862692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/57807187720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/zidaximimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxesystem.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60325589565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valencia.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/49037308323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f14ea3f31e---11940690013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borneneskontor-landsforening.dk/userfiles/file/kuberisuniteseniwukudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/45843536767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60579132838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congluc.com/upload/files/73266259317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/pisivivavutufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/ludixozovafoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bapassamarinda.id/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/57262867865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviafond.ru/userfiles/file/savusukefigasur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanhcongnghiepthinhphat.com/upload/files/wuzusoworexalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeongwonenc.com/userfiles/file/74783887644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e9cca73219f8dd3819f50524ed7bac/loxipiwezumejakifemuliwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133232ea8944---dizawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/93785141344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb2352d340---17052616807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pc+multiplayer+games+for+low+end+pcPDF 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_off0000d078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD078 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 6754625875f26e91144fb0299a08818ea3866dc6e54c998e4d22682ea54ba42b
font_01_sfnt_off0000eac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC0 17468 bytes
SHA-256: dbc6dec72da67b4bf2539e9c9d79569c98131f9ab24bc98cf487bfee98d5d5f1
font_02_sfnt_off000117d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1