Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b255c6cc85979b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 06:52:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a798f173ba57b4a3ef5296123148da8d SHA-1: f64a04ad72a3de692f974388cc4db047ee6b4151 SHA-256: 9b255c6cc85979b49beada07d6a77c28654a5562753833dc5bb7c791d7bcd025
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress sites hosting further malicious PDFs. The presence of 'invoice or payment language paired with an action verb' suggests a phishing lure to trick users into downloading the embedded malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • 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
  • 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://axwelindia.com/uploads/zimomivod.pdf
    • http://gialtour.it/themes/userfiles//files/59203262548.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6c84587ac---31075243423.pdf
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3qfqv5nm2npqo74anqji122q1/18088121606.pdf
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22moak61havv9dd8j43e3jfu52/kekurajigumorejimod.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b9f3c2814---rojinuzegebilimoda.pdf
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc28212bc4e---wolufuwuxajujobejejab.pdf
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762c974c312---tipereravi.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2f1ed7879---zafasikojebunuzuvixip.pdf
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76cf2b37ff773c653159326e95717c09/27318427634.pdf
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b28f9965c2fc76584ba95969f178d22e/sededasipupakazusaru.pdf
    • https://eccdc.org/application/webroot/userfiles/file/vijuru.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7547ce33d1---53663790732.pdf
    • https://qqhanoman.com/contents//files/tuzijuzubizamumideket.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c70f457ac3e9d2faca8dfd604587d990/96602916929.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f027286a71---53917587483.pdf
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a979380a15d1e24a3b9d63968bfe3b3/15391333154.pdf
    • http://studiogallerani.it/userfiles/files/70744979249.pdf
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/39060482077.pdf
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/39231342239.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0097c0ab1e41ab4c0c10df9ccae43cb0/40545205799.pdf
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/40558914700.pdf
    • http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xululenurixozutelumu.pdf
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c665983c33da463665e91b28135cc20/neragi.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa75edf0967beb1233f82e75f4506501/kufedorefakufivup.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=real+estate+title+and+escrow
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eec7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106de.bin
c79223568311557578a345d2db6bf914b2e46e5b012b7655219fa769b1d30ec5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106DE 10492 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ede.bin
a888ade1d82d92e05881bcce838b7347a528d305648e67e8d4bce5bdb95f8610
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDE 16552 bytes