Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9ed8b1d55b54262…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:53:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2f182dd58fab7c95baf0e8d25191d013 SHA-1: d37e7c5b506e62a87b2a4a9a2ad6986653e3b21c SHA-256: f9ed8b1d55b542622869ab13345beb2850c7c81e6b2e154cc4bc9254cc5161b5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to other PDFs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ms02bet.com/contents/files/vuxulunuwixasumaka.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theloanwala.com/userfiles/file/44318217699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varudusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs/files/18547181026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcf788ff45a13f965b5130934666cf76/xipupevekilowowefikuwado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75769758246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptwash.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/79920939477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/86897287667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f7ec4ee7e---83585021996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesmashclub.com/imgUpload/files/45631429945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_9B971BC8A07ADA3E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/78642200522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh4-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/zenekukipenuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.bgk-meshkova.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/galikelusesizezepawipera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/dejigenunanuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highendteen.com/userfiles/files/bitomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/fojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yam-token.com/business_school/uploads/file/gebeligavovuzuwewabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rileyillustration.com/images/agency/files/poromog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.bet/contents/files/98251171412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenmodels.ru/uploads/files/70746831657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/47185248177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f885e9974d3b3dd64ccec9d63f9be081/gasokulefujataz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=slitherio+download+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_off0000d690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD690 18884 bytes
SHA-256: 92d56d456f238a34d94dec21526435b8e079adc6cf75ffebbb50f3c54ef53ebb
font_01_sfnt_off000107c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C3 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 13f995a6e746a02fe336b83e0a1f40f4f9e5aa75c8c193720d2973b683491be2
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1