Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06821489526e4b93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 03:53:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ba7b18777e7818a17b83c28c48b3f38f SHA-1: c7378237e7333031cf9537d4e9d37e0ee238e07f SHA-256: 06821489526e4b93577bcf511517af7422f1d51fbdb1e45a4768b9b8fc02df76
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by heuristics suggesting it's a fake invoice and contains a download button. It hosts a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 8

  • 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
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6la8i0cjkbh0b7rfef32mlfl9/17693584343.pdf
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/momaf.pdf
    • http://jsushibrea.com/uploads/files/3182727313.pdf
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210624205918.pdf
    • http://fondationmonetoile.org/clients/0/0e/0ecfe6182781ff486fe5156d2e85c11d/File/xujijasapuzowufep.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830b3ccd716---kutoraladogozisedoz.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k644n34otd421g1hil8ptvcad/28640289959.pdf
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/vanebifejuboledirojabuk.pdf
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/pidik.pdf
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210602_053051.pdf
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ac5ec8d11318da5274b2a80c612d266/81775054862.pdf
    • https://driftwoodcc.com/userfiles/files/11693354987.pdf
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38lsfs6gb5v2d9oaq4uu964f14/xijojuwapebap.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e358182f7ba---61571162173.pdf
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ff1ae749a33505cc6c02b7583686c5/18889646076.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a715b8f28dd---53159794505.pdf
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d652bf1497---89311121234.pdf
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210602185212.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fbb2962e224ff96b4a5c94eab2b8e31/65682038527.pdf
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810808b0a09---10588832033.pdf
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4e1a2fc50---5222534182.pdf
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/bufadatilisetod.pdf
    • http://pitneyclan.com/clients/c/c7/c7afcfad87c307b096642b2e35f52d25/File/74886274905.pdf
    • https://togeltop.net/contents//files/kuzajukozuzo.pdf
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075800dc860b---91446363296.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b996a8a6a933046ea04f80990f43be6d/wipulef.pdf
    • http://iteequipment.com/clients/65150/File/59880493991.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=neet+official+answer+key
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed8b.bin
44fa811d9af066c43028b5161f07fb3c72cb2c1ba5433071041da07829f2e869
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8B 10596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000105f0.bin
71f795691a5e7ad1d97cbd07db9f8c017c86c158432245efae0b4ceb5e003e48
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F0 16808 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000131c5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C5 16792 bytes