Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 196e65319d4006db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:33:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b0d852635b8d34058ff5ad4baecdb192 SHA-1: 9c76f78d10b4b32e9c8131413d04f30fe971822b SHA-256: 196e65319d4006db67fb09715df12354f7eb4a3c940334e12f0081aaf0093599
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing pretext, likely aiming to trick users into clicking the embedded links for payment or invoice-related scams. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090616142373499.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ebus.cn/up_file/file/gewuzawamobokedil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/75537244828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsankyo.com/Uploads/file/kafedenetebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/doreduzigudoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/mujegevoduvefobatanaxemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4767h3rbmqu5obe44jned141t/93798572748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabo-meccanica.eu/userfiles/files/gudanojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imoroz.by/upload/file/25901562250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/fiwufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psyforyou.nl/upload/fckeditor/file/jukagasifiteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f4812957cf5ed9c8f79d56f5f062b2f/37166765577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srilakshmienterprises.net/uploads/74606330162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/45022952492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.net/filespath/files/20210908144710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzstock.com/Upfiles/file/61235111404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c7d909358---losupewexowisolavix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seteo-dechets.com/images/file/34066568867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/xuvibarisusefepiper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/29167319128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.com/uploads/file/bilokiruzaroduxinawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b63ba9617---70869267033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/96276226410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b8815cc4cbc7cfc5f431e31aae40e7e/31932601862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef1de8f8fd---wukaselalito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=cash+flow+analysis+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_off0000eb79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB79 10496 bytes
SHA-256: b671da0d960e55218ea359400c10623bf6c7fc6bd8a1c510de4668a1210d70cf
font_01_sfnt_off00010344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10344 18012 bytes
SHA-256: cc1fc3b6bfe5e09440df8cad6f41c866811ac0b38b6d5fc10fe01362edcac59f
font_02_sfnt_off0001328f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1328F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1