Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9fce8a34deb4d3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:19:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9aae7012ee76d91b98a36a4b961109f4 SHA-1: b9e53c84bfbc687b96041219f18d3e1466864d4e SHA-256: d9fce8a34deb4d3e1e789986ea656b43e8bf9be60b50192fa985f382a21e9a94
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content, likely a phishing lure or malware downloader. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47636c1bc090aa53e47bb059083617b5/jukomozirepesum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/32330172328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gold-carsales.com/js/upload/files/wazawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/54987011493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcpsystem.com/userData/board/file/82750443660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wimborst-ceramics.nl/public/view/upload/fckeditor_images/file/16372901370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/xadeteverar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.com/images/upload/files/javupotuzorafeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factorycontrolprojects.com/userfiles/file/57274534106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/48191986080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenext.pk/userfiles/files/gibedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614192c2c0f85---wimejosevowomifavekaril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/libaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05cb6b256936ae229117db428e8cf4fc/wuwusunutoxoxizup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/62003526958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7e335603a---10395140611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaluzaktanegitim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tafumanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darangyi.com/userData/board/file/77263583930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38311bcadcb0660a411f1eedd2ef7191/nulepajason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f1-rennsimulatoren.de/userfiles/file/kaxakotoriwadegezolewib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismart99.net/upload/files/5087983083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eg-connect.com/uploads/editorfiles/file///riregagifobowarewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=new+viva+videoPDF 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_off0000d1ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1EA 9856 bytes
SHA-256: b554b8caa6f4b3c1deaf772b2028908760477382c34e05aba412797294b0588f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B8 18556 bytes
SHA-256: 089348c451060bf59466c73f0fbe13c142716ec719fd7abb0b4678216396213d
font_02_sfnt_off000117f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1