Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04e335de20e8a097…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 16:10:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 77c63a996d6667e770b9d0e1553b8953 SHA-1: 3a12157c7c152921566a5f0fb6909445c28f1629 SHA-256: 04e335de20e8a097ebea6da8b9c8843d4cec5faf1bbb1bb257499732b3e042df
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious files. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is intended to deceive the user into clicking these links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/21147605076.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/sagukesakabemebupofexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db1ed89b57---vadoseniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d72450d72---6136440207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsdqu1rjd2jr6ndh51hv5hi6o5/91893457955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uoebkrarh6lmf3p9cmq9p5q784/39631291181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3urh3ith668hgdslutdfrrg489/kekoranuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1arufuembq8inbutiqv1hdcp6/jipedowada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sheeld.org/clients/d/d0/d021426cee8527c21a172be12ef3d645/File/31806304020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gnvjn6ljleleolp2m6kev7bbf/majidizofonimigizilulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ardpac9td76u2clkbe4gl952/xixenagojinojekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/13039167083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c47fe47eb---vovakotoluvirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58dad139c9---98474834883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/katagubideketoted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/disuviwonotikarube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3810793a9ab0e8ed70c105b1cc9afc0/vegamukojavurikir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/mupuxuvivizapurasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/8783921526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/satit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8kt5gf3llmk5liqka4713tag7/41156567620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/582c5717fcafb679e3a30b9bad65542f/81383327518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=average+cost+of+food+per+month+for+family+of+4PDF 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_off0000f87e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87E 11308 bytes
SHA-256: b3c62a8922c160ed466545e8c993e33246b4242cff43f0927b83ecc70df8611a
font_01_sfnt_off000112bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112BB 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 50b20e7b6e483c29c7c54e4fe77f51f59812b01e6555a556ab23722b47dd24a5
font_02_sfnt_off00013e7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1