Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 413aedd6a6857c95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:08:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: df895a62862912c8b4bed8f17f03696b SHA-1: ea944a5f4810e79d6a82cbe0651759848eaeb40a SHA-256: 413aedd6a6857c9546a3b9b0c5a1018b4094f481ada6068dbce082ba1c2f1708
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' indicates the document's content is likely a fake invoice or payment request to entice users to click these links. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://evo-models.com/uploads/userfiles/files/jopudopi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71c984df02---xojobipewusubefibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/31224945212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdfe631fd4b4f295a9bdec126b159dd5/80871672789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60721fa0f8771f1c4d715bb1252f09c/delowaguzadabitipikojelur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/95545903821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/47015453521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f02a624432---jaxefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotojursa.cz/userfiles/file/kazinotigodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6f64be499---84854606002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/42413309536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd9684f7a0---zizasopufuxanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/7622387373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/76838337909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/59009873323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161073c783c68c---34368534886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/jojuluzojaxijesepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba3fa4f16f585fc6c1925fb7f740c633/46040332534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec428257b25---dasizonasek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adad09bd163---welavomexafeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trongtinpc.com/luutru/files/3942995621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7d71c105e---giwomovuzurakomowizebit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d2f75d78a9889952c0a497e55a4b4c8/94468990391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/tutebuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82244b8b7c48350f32a0ab27d4f3ea70/56184911623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+change+from+a+solid+to+a+liquid+calledPDF 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_off0000defb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEFB 16816 bytes
SHA-256: 1a00c660c2dfa05b208f359175417d2f9582cad920a6558b5acbc0caee55be36
font_01_sfnt_off00010a8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8A 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 571d2caa8bf11a56b073298649c8c443f0aebe2b7ee01c7bc46fb221bd2a36e6
font_02_sfnt_off000123f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1