Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dce174632b7c5d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-07 22:54:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 14140f5d4a3fb5b42df1a0b1d92b1678 SHA-1: 46714b2d888dea84bb45186d13f40798885661e6 SHA-256: 9dce174632b7c5d182664abf77daa2d59839b9ea44e8b4450b573af8b68f8bdb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' suggests a phishing pretext, and the ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns that leverage embedded links to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • 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://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/ralulovutakit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pahsclassof2005.com/clients/d/d6/d61c4c031b0f3af13d3e88110ef3a3e1/File/ravafaropugepirowode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc6c1f3b51---numaruviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/sarisobimadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f98b6e810d14ff4706cb2c99ba148ab/kebisisujubikeredejadiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/sopijoneletesojalidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f4c6435c4e9e6b739b8593122bc613d/2356077829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezrenweb.com/calisma2/files/uploads/8961965488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bfcd0d1be---54663416535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3858e7cc50ebde96c6dbb425f7be0921/2305468124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b52c92b13bf185bdfde4b10aef379bd6/79211977169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/37189009360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f0a0dcefc283528ba0fa10cddb19a73/fijiwegikepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c555757e0484c603898fc703beecb56/18732560700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92441571909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/60159233444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet.asia/UserFiles/File/jegikibudenememob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/42079243847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0127db979---gotokezezolejirapapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/12242866647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/lemedazofofumiwofunonudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhhqudu5fpvjpvdtfjcmgko3oi/31244220684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aq1t7oho40qdqtc788qs6dcp81/jawalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/54197782836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+financial+capability+statementPDF 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_off0000f0e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E0 10972 bytes
SHA-256: c3e931c3e2696c0a77c0a2ef66a4176bdc61e02315a9be746b717deee5c26008
font_01_sfnt_off00010a1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1F 16308 bytes
SHA-256: 157cc462d15c1a16376ec95c19c9ad320aa6e4c38acd09c84ad2e754fa20f638
font_02_sfnt_off0001341a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1341A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1