Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3747c3d3058078be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:32:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: aecd5f16fdad5f9b6862e4bd1e3b481e SHA-1: c73dc2c5a9473e45308f32e19ed429bfbc43cca1 SHA-256: 3747c3d3058078be8dfd268b3264006ef0346e1ee1d4e1886089065c504b27d6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the document's structure as a link farm and the presence of invoice-related language in heuristics point towards a phishing attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+source+documents+in+accounting+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/791c78aa30d4399a8be4f116da89decd/pisefilegakotiponof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee20056833a1f3174ea3d96a69ffe1c/sopemisogimiwutizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/19780347059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feaacaa1d289f14e2d96a35c9dd52a50/2191322714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90261c315590bc58c3a0a14283e756a1/75313132615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29c8a8073cfe557981275c02b3e8fd17/sisetogozinetuzuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/sesapobipavexoxiwufedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826a7ed38e6---42916164941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e11aeeeeb---61422595051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/bugifetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/kuvamupibemojerepudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210616163155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609787cbe5451---93761104393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202106221856478550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/juxatituzobuwemugepuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0f7e5a974---9872313298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f7f0b8d69---reniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14330594372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35030518275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a113d2305---93045285692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piau-po21inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/87668937662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3brsqln2ghv2jd9m5503vldd0/sufomonurojibuwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/79605640509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64d44d4322d9f45b1673cf4aea5f3b46/zumevefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF935 11092 bytes
SHA-256: ca2288235defd3e60d9fcacb97ad8de8c18069eb2f1dd8030f340de9cc403819
font_01_sfnt_off000112e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E6 17328 bytes
SHA-256: c458c27be59ff374a60881aac45338e051fac5c194f3317d18507d0e008bb268
font_02_sfnt_off00014032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14032 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1