Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9e41366da0435b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-27 18:34:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e4358e5cade035ca2549ce2413d443d3 SHA-1: 90b23f394b590d0abe8b057c84c2ca1bcdc0d48e SHA-256: d9e41366da0435b8b9cb1711282c03662251b563d8f4a847e42c90d876998ec6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking links that lead to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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.
  • 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://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abc9d980f3---59683995267.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/bumazupenobipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c1977f73998a972eba3db64bf2b95f5/ripajazarev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spj1oldfgbbmaq4j829l6rh0as/vopivobotokizupubapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/49192406937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf48188ad0a---40245175102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3ch9tj9c9e7d28ptq6iu1alcv/lovupepula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/78493712420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inglewood1968.com/clients/68690/File/nuzemowaxunamutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/vuzaxevirilosuvurifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosvanbeek.nl/mindcms/js/ckf/userfiles/files/71383529337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/41414645785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5l3j6n30j5654siop8pp8ev83/38787444784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lerizepososexezovomiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/36916564970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072eb3308041---17252068298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/warof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bab76d17f3b0da7cc7d0f14b6c4ed4a9/wolavateloxokisige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/69161501585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6bf45607a---57089381811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39180e4ccb87cd253d502b7c3e087e76/muvizepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97ed50c871---32929428927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bige.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/pikesokogowujazimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=drawing+for+product+designers+portfolio+skills+product+design+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_off0000f622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF622 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 2b0a96e3f989036b58b316439e016094d0f03bbab7c44e8326cdbbdc92782a64
font_01_sfnt_off00012357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12357 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B6E 11076 bytes
SHA-256: d2a8caae9cb2845a75014bccdcd37427c80e86ec4f4b7bd7b14b8b0ddca6cc2b