Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9b5cf92158f6fe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-04 05:28:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 90443d4f405390cc763a4f7ce4ebff81 SHA-1: 5b01ae4a94243e7cdf434a8072d8d6a32777bfa2 SHA-256: d9b5cf92158f6fe2168787e523d785eab0351e905b8d842531d819a8db41ae88
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for 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://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4048c8e4f---kufix.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47c834eb1e967ee81cf0730a0a9c9bfa/sufogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fa0d505daf9b5bc3fd8286ab27d0671/71365593832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be9042dfb60---64869937140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/46324821108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/pesowaxatasamudabatul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kuvibuzabekekopitapubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/97582720131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukysovin.com/img-svc/files/13679415098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e89845651c---93530432610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/61851343401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e797ac9fcb5c0e97b5519e53be1437/kitoxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/tazejadejevutomumosufuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28917335772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b20b04cee04e0abb480e07adc068bdb3/tufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88f1b527c3b72d73c5f5ebe30fbd5089/5943224864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089281c44382---64199012411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/58863323743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/88480118524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1496c69a6---rumanoxeboxajexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vexubuzogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labmansour.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fesijupixesadukeronanatep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4kojhnn6vod4bqkl1ddbss7svn/26017349203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896joobhe3f736893te0bv7s57/kimotoporotoginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=prodigy+math+game+hack+extensionPDF 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_off0000f049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF049 17260 bytes
SHA-256: aa71c3ecbe88f7b921dec215b8926f76b645f295d6c3f29dfca7f838c2506eb0
font_01_sfnt_off00011d72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D72 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 0b68029926cc7a850245035558f8354809bd4f12fa8960978cc1bd650e5b47d9
font_02_sfnt_off000136f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1