Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d471f4d769f3467…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:32:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8acaf19f532b042939db838b4ff3c46e SHA-1: afa4bdf23a63fee9ededa2f537ab90b6781f412a SHA-256: 3d471f4d769f34676e5a8268f9d06d6f97f29dc846e1870407bcd5a70dd8c7ed
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' indicates the document's content is designed to deceive users into taking an action, likely related to the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=possession+certificate+application+form+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/nolikod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/wixewaxexugibixifesetovas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092099bafcd4---56004655538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/mevukulefubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/gugijofijuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b54c1eb4fb---zafusekuvaxusaxozuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8560b150a175a364d67a4b58d0999581/9353065692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/40817538060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202107042344146239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/97273381362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a05761061d80d3b403fb69d225b1bdcc/11059412959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d92e955809---mexojotuwewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolinterier.sk/upload/files/morawitawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/56349196646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817fa2341f2---jonawiwudulikuser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21a88f21e9---vogurefonuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99d33ba31601fa41526d85c5a26e86b0/jomuwedibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/78209240756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48376474578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srinivasagroup.com/ci/userfiles/files/86843153303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-12/20210812234219975786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04f3169e244319670419414fddca54c1/98303453095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbox-technology.com/upload/datoteke/gufezikozosamafoti.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_off0000e563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE563 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD7A 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 4b5fa8e24c06fd9e24d0a36f6e7bdd2b362417f538f6b147eb090497db633ae5
font_02_sfnt_off0001164a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1164A 18160 bytes
SHA-256: ec8f1972c21ab457f09827c7bcc678417aa8dd9d13cee5852b8d5cf78a9c0693