Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3505619a11e68ee2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:02:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: cb3d97f44089027d7b456496d04e01c3 SHA-1: b6573c0ee2272249d9d71659cea86cd969e2f2f0 SHA-256: 3505619a11e68ee275d03170704070c9a7a31d0761ddc050d78a64be284d0339
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it's a link farm and uses urgency lures, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting reinforces this. While no scripts were directly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to download a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://envisystem.com/upload/userfile/files/sedovezagu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beaa5080c66---razejirozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948312f105d---59773586864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/72318842880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/65137472199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4d64211d3---xapanosizurereneripu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/57749771601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793b37a6960---jatawebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/32039125045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/kosisutifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf933666fc7af9ec3f87e890749e566b/61605870814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd8ee668783---58888533185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwesovapekexakaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c39e5d0cb---20660903504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a072799c5f4---binizejuzexaxizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu3i8iv265u2o2pbh6ttkfsdt8/xaxirevakipemadirirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/junusiwifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608560406fee2---96066398506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e426e2483---93788114290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82058532550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609845222f13f---kamobololivalokivonawazaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=editable+pdf+bank+statement+templatePDF 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_off00015778.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15778 18028 bytes
SHA-256: 029160b0f7cdd3eab2ba4ef6769279f1c9f9654e4a19486ec0eb3a666511ff4f
font_01_sfnt_off000186d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019eed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19EED 10656 bytes
SHA-256: c3b045e5f25c3beb0b0a3ea270774fe46cf79ad1c3d61b7c58acca1e54ad9f21