Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d79f7effce6d004…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-08-23 09:22:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 19d5de494ef0e23ea435f86bd37e3d8a SHA-1: 2c41534b30c02a9761d3f483a36a7f7321923d0a SHA-256: 5d79f7effce6d004f73a41d8ce67c88a49c275410cc5ded0a3985027141bb69d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, as indicated by the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic and the presence of numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to various PDF files hosted on different domains, likely to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://softtox.pl/new/userfiles/file/sevuxogas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a131083baea---ruludepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830ed5ac221---budozit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac0a6d4c80---nobizijaxuwuzetegefijeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/dedewozififexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b818c75a445---84393604482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cefd4144d1---70698947807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanjutpt1.com/contents//files/gafiximire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rat22746c8uj199auh35tqhlb4/17965932821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqdtrtdvtve42622dfo8iidcb3/22093532459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/golodevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1961.com/clients/7/71/7137ee3fbd99c17d296746b31d66a47b/File/95316385087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d1ba16ede---99956518498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbtsap.com/Upfiles/news/file///55200134061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/37474101087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c40febb1f39d841596a8f83a48ddf757/motuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2t38o95jub5hohfb2aka834t26/lubamizinevusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161163e2bbfa8f---58266778417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/96644354533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/xetukojivuzaferuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behbehaniprojects.com/uploads/files/rixamunolobepokebilewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=everyday+spelling+answersPDF 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_off0000ed3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3D 15936 bytes
SHA-256: e0273416763c415d3bc6fefe8965e018fe5a0c5b35bf3d37f507f309098ead8d
font_01_sfnt_off00011653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11653 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 5b2c3befc2b89027e40ce2e929e0c3ca3f7668a1878f817d7cf464c43bc7fd4f
font_02_sfnt_off00012e70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1