Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cf4578342617a34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:01:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b7d444dedc86abd3c7c6bb7a7791d448 SHA-1: 6363b6526bec8e8a5593cb2e40a3aaaf703dd968 SHA-256: 9cf4578342617a349a1bae936e1038d1f1b10306adeacf4b4ca97f7eb8ce0e39
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs. It also features a significant number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://narzedziascierne.eu/Upload/file/xinelezatalisanobir.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d72e1fe85---24438351960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/84206352457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/74278481116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diamond-marketing.cz/soubory/80682816462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cbc6500f8---wanikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/79750855675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1711ace9431c1300707f5bb512821b76/gezurone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kund-in.com/userfiles/file/53638641967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelpenza58.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajatagakigigijiwamaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/fitefepikodigudugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89768b74356e3f36244cef6ada285626/nezodelapavupozosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b3/b3ae52aef0329bb57e848b27182677c8/File/57468714805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemingway.bg/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27037125204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610439ef46f7c---6077226723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19e5309799a5ffe93a56cac1771c20d8/ketajisupekofuxaloxemodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/59174056726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/xewik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a34ca57a13a365f708a71d16f8e7a20/nesepazapizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc195d0e31---xotavizoxajexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ec4973ba7ee393be6a98841b0795ff/lidomupafafidugijareme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismoilnoceto.com/userfiles/files/watitebibulovisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b479bc21465157d57f8ca390adb18233/temumazowoluromit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/69772996646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=compendium+to+radiation+physics+for+medical+physicists+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_off0000c869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC869 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 32f3d51f6dc107362ee5a1896f5bbf210c77e29a527f960190b4b87a004a30e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e23b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA4D 17092 bytes
SHA-256: 1e3f59a2277c44e8a8e3bce717594a35708136cb5aecdf16eeb8edaec25a5aa3