Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8170a7439839317…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:26:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 46c83893d90278ec35bdd0ec1cc18ba4 SHA-1: 7e1bd85782ebb2786a99e9b135442a75456b883e SHA-256: a8170a7439839317f8ebba56415eb20612f546a6e96cb0a6408af2bd1263785b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically using invoice or payment-related language to entice users. The presence of numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to host and distribute malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the download of a second-stage payload via the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210602174711.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723a2beba42---42170769361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/gorurexikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/19345984752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgkcdd1q727h3aotdbc1bkidd3/78776018861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0f07b9862---9480237525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/kodazazesorevidilamonovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607e7c8d6aca7---21753298774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/58249038088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobergamaschi.it/userfiles/files/5456531987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eee622b96---8929227021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59021b9996bbf6a48e19274ecc12d26a/ginixono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc8kedt3j1jrgagvacd1i2jfpf/11215742192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f44eb5f92f6106befa930431f77c0bc/80316363127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ee2f02a14eb2658fbf7268af6ef0c69/lozaneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///70986255186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e2ddd7d9a6c47da3fd84813b1ab68f1/3050923397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb08fbb2661---61388179085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c624abed1e3d422e2ea81185767152d6/vekiziditosafusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09n6lf2r9g4k8k5q727nhuqq0m/53062116703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9m6dccncg9odjnsfn40d49f8q/41900232216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49fv8g0taunq6saspmtt1a31g/807989770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094519774c77---xajipagepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+an+email+for+outstanding+paymentPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FE 17176 bytes
SHA-256: 44b69a5b4ca9293cd1b7b6e796e2bd2274b1162329e40dbbf6a8aa7524d02f19
font_01_sfnt_off000110dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110DD 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 79af5400a7b8f6e54f9073c1900375665aee5a9b52fd7549cea88092defac5cb
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000142b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142B6 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 5c13cceb9d36bbc2bc20aea0fe1d16ac5c722eae827defaa6d249ccd2c25c082