Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f9fac311dbd1828…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-08-21 20:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 47030c4c1fadc25f6902f755c2fcdb5b SHA-1: 4c24a1d6b85538bca5107768eb74448a40ee8220 SHA-256: 1f9fac311dbd182895774cd21092e58ca71de48048c79ce4e3d683984611a9e8
112 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into clicking these links, likely to download a malicious payload. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202104/file/jerotuvofujokujamoboguva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/mimegofatusinipijunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762a66535fd---69681250370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascend.sut.ac.th/ce/2017/src/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74943554842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f610e2f58c5360a0c7cd535b86aa07/vamobagupabinewurizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a33017b61f---93589946072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/29964234195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/75777712706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/22301315094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18610ed52675fd858754385c72c332fe/tikozedafibisizuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnificenttreks.com/userfiles/file/43868762573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auburn-companies.com/userfiles/files/jabavagujidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23104868074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/lorunewabaxoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/nofomezopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alde-pace.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90842102394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/33941566319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d75aea1a95032876b0f43398bdcc215b/nudowujeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/51706141528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/rerixototasutobuzepufuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9a9bb99a9f09c554a0ee9f8e06e5c24/77268603486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c89cf577fcc8422de819a7ae5bac8bd/60261233031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/21706522941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+create+an+aging+report+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_off0000cd6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e57f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57F 16480 bytes
SHA-256: 3cad88bd439b6a67f2997c02221669da3bcf67da73a0721f1c7062d07e765243
font_02_sfnt_off0001106f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1106F 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 361f520ab582f0b7912a095ee33b1a120752ad7e6e7dd5109b7dd19a2546d0c9