Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3175f6ab9a767718…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-06-21 09:18:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b64e430dba63ab0176fc9921a462a39a SHA-1: a46f0ec8c9f76b381523be0a0f6d85ddbd8e9dec SHA-256: 3175f6ab9a767718e718f6ba7191bbb91f1979b1ac365647f8e0eb14e35c6b67
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to mimic an invoice or payment request, further supporting a phishing attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the overall detection profile suggest it's part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7e80487dc---loniranagivifofi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/23549417437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/givarujosifivalaxava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ad571eecef2218593adaadb7f456838/lojalatobuwigeroligi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a290ce68685---zufazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/11474086149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b70ed9176c8e321f840bc5d6069b560/sesuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/57630787297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/29280778358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129472f07436ed937669a3c87ade091a/nazun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708609e198d---navifenixiselaleledubetud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719db700793---23451105973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/95421754068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c35476ae0c747cb52c31edfbde850d/10890504739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+qualitative+characteristics+of+financial+statementsPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ded3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED3 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 15877f4cf268d28b34cddc3f19c5670ea629ee1e81d06bb70d986de8a6ec981e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF095 9848 bytes
SHA-256: 5b81e295205dc4718a5e97562ec9fea6cce28c23de96f4736e806d0b2c186a00