Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2128ff151e121327…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:25:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 84b7a0e5c2349b60e0dec077d599845f SHA-1: 2204fc21027b9b56125ec46c10678cbb0281b822 SHA-256: 2128ff151e12132713275ba7669d80cbdeb07fd6fdedb4e8be9b86697ad0ae2e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is likely a fake invoice or payment request to trick users into clicking these links. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards a malicious phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8b82shcof0cjmdvocf3196653/guxojanebijesekodozoda.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70ac9666be7af1caf5ca9f529340a951/rijotamelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988bb2332d9---62564536065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d9c51c5f8ff62a8b2c365d0b5a060d5/zezapexepulukusizunalanub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41i847o8qlo2lq7i7l7tnahij5/bemunobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2acfe2eb4f---80990277613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2881da6329---84407864128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6uquqv6jhhvosg76jfcamjd426/50901629655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/79121167677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210625_65817FE9CC6BF6D2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/77767886439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbad4a5b7ae---6122359331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bdf030dd0---43863291763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccff309639---dasepipepatuwijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a02b1e07268a3b4517e6cff888d82a/mosuvugama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fb9f3d356---67785277961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a056c97b2af---rijalasujane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victoriousintl.com/new/resource/files/vusigaliliberuzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725a10414e4---fifapimopowuxusirogijidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-17/20210517220225275518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4dfee22b77---jenorogusuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b84efe111dbc9a475deb8dcac8367a85/46716326174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/25392143229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/fufuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/felam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c980d9eb1a---teperajobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=interview+questions+for+accounting+clerk+and+answersPDF 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_off0001075b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1075B 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 84cb822d93f629e6ff7954be5f715d4d7b6f251cc4773960d1970fab5bf836ba
font_01_sfnt_off000120e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E6 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 251558d1d682d196ec9c51fe7d56fff642ea8cdebf2bde7491c1bce4b1d9f0e6
font_02_sfnt_off00014ef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1