Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bc479ea36d59ad2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:14:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e9f48090f063db752864a895f2f45698 SHA-1: b81665121442968391ce2fcf026776832bf12afa SHA-256: 9bc479ea36d59ad20c7c11b42435454a6bc6bf716c3ae17b890c8645321dca70
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'Fake invoice / payment lure' heuristic further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/toduwineg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/wujepibugatuledexivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csa.china-led.net/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/suziveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c13d840f1c170a130923d53d484b4802/89083461211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82aug456t1anvk5e3e6dl63nr0/86400247459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c65ce6e9c---43832576269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfc7461a916---bowifurine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaphcm.com/luutru/files/xipofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6cf333ae5453d54b9e4538646a66a11/66477423101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/dezipazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74b41bd064d3ff99c66cb0fa1d9d86e1/pefazuzolami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48261776592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea99267c94d674c630926acdf9431812/laturaroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d15sur1i04ggeimckjf5uunrn1/polifelevonagafokewanixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovth.ch/userfiles/files/lifigefajose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alansglobalservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54795834528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7anjpiq9td36ckrdgav0afjht1/37029888741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/simefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985902d58cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beulahcooleycollection.com/clients/870349/File/warilipetetorunakerate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210512112715751326xe6fs5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fibertech1.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52998786846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=r%C3%B4mulo+passos+pdfPDF 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_off00012287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12287 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013a9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A9E 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 32a7da6d8f59f66ad7c66bf98c08bbf63419c7f49cb9ea9ea90d5438a43b1ed8
font_02_sfnt_off00015200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15200 21472 bytes
SHA-256: 5b92cdd9e0f994c2071861961b2680b56abe231c4398cff12b61b1e987e94e13