Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c59a7e293bcd94a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:52:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 24c54b8fb355c0e6b9b5caf9fef89bba SHA-1: 5a0a4a3eee981e8a7e7cb9ae51fa3c4847125a1b SHA-256: 1c59a7e293bcd94a3d7893a556645802582365ff2f49bc1ac30b3ed527d68035
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised websites hosting further malicious content, likely a second-stage payload. The presence of invoice-related lures suggests a phishing attempt to trick users into downloading malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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 http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a837cf54e302eefcd72d591c978714/43695317383.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911ea67001e---12541771369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/jepinetovovipevebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/31350796062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/4267417691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0354e7c47ef799ba837cd1557a3f631e/42592394807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/65256003578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/74277549062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/67390463565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/jukegixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d541a5354a5643b8b7c48b0c152cb399/jeruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210516094953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vg7h6o7u4li3f5j153jf5lc794/96266322320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fced7fc5e30a1a2e728a0d5ed853fd31/xoxupinewotiponesiridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e5a2316d186fa6b69afc3ef0ca89a83/13682516410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/49101661249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce173d5f317---benekejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/520ad7ad9ba64975def87e4655740f9a/kixenotele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/58890834778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b020f682829---66021443588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/058407914d3f282a00f1696d6130d419/40650551289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/99146098469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d67e549619f5a5d32d13b4ca7bd18ddb/70164883721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=como+visualizar+nfe+xml+em+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_off0000e0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C5 17992 bytes
SHA-256: b9c045328abfa981595af6931a40b02abf9c3ec85ef8cb28574564488607d412
font_02_sfnt_off000126ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126BA 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 27d4597240373f963187e897d82ab61b72f272d04d0525f3445a8ddbda545782