Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0c47bc5a972b5b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-06-21 00:31:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: f7bb735e48c88d9862ae2ef5536cec7f SHA-1: 63b1d0ba822a4ca4f5cfb3413cc311fadc69c9cb SHA-256: d0c47bc5a972b5b6d668085b79b73fca468a9cd523c5f4a7a9ecf3eaf1d66cd7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics suggest it functions as a link farm, potentially leading to a phishing or malware download site, and contains language indicative of an invoice lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/9651145646.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/787d46387fd1908c9fce6eda4dfe2768/detepukenusidumegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36165c0851028e96793632e5dc2c41a1/femiwufunasinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607606f8ef951---37838029867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1641a97b4---lunasanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb578b3b22---63044677965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/rabovomuwakepadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a5e962fa6---44200797927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93e2e1b0557f13bf2fb9ddab033d1bdf/94086894437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5ahh0ogcf7tasnlecv3qiu100/91121989577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsf3f10u0hccd3oqrsaqobsc94/97462433034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internationalnetworksolutions.net/files/jozawavudosapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1knjs9mr1u1e6ojlbmeo7p3of/99936323184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cccde43801e03aa9bcb15962d4bbca5/ketefopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=linear+algebra+friedberg+4thPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000108f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F4 5160 bytes
SHA-256: da29765abe0a17fd7122529b8d424ca867493834ebeca52afc740578b0fa7e50
font_01_sfnt_off00011a81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A81 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 5c64be7c7a4d8d32af24379b47ad8c6191c2b1338d0e50e2c6314a93b96d15cc