Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e89f226e744c811…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 03:30:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 236971ab38fb40fe6ce85467aa5e9304 SHA-1: 84dea2a080bbc41ba65f395c30845f07a5a20bb3 SHA-256: 5e89f226e744c81163c2de38bfc26e7a8b54f766a39ed5e35b592eb86a374045
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic firings suggest it functions as a link farm, potentially leading users to download further malicious content, and contains language indicative of an invoice or payment lure. The embedded URLs point to compromised CMS upload storage, further supporting the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fd0050179---82512477692.pdf
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/63914686065.pdf
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e69743adc8919d4ac25f9d0896f2cb12/5991156031.pdf
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/17663975277.pdf
    • http://podlahyadvere.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/tosebilivuze.pdf
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hg8n7ddedb0tvmcprostppagds/gudisitisotasipapoviwegud.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f40a00b23b---39552856404.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db98473123a189c257eaeeeb0e10a93a/wibifexulefome.pdf
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckapcuqsdi55574ncc21ufb7pj/44484710906.pdf
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/nirijegipugizesolu.pdf
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/sirunaxujaraxiluvo.pdf
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfc84a93ad8---20680267474.pdf
    • https://clubsportedinburgh.org/userfiles/files/kemubadus.pdf
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpg6epp9j5ujm3qp9d983o6jhk/95631992374.pdf
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hu3v7gtm5v5ae17k56ol91tqqi/557961572.pdf
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///26735856637.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de5f952eb4---6736510629.pdf
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/52456163910.pdf
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/bimodesawotegozanefik.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/toginobowaba.pdf
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210525022012759062816.pdf
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lpq9n1ibghu0821ctt7gb11fd/sotoradomojira.pdf
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3b0309a9mf1sq4mg1qe7m7t5/ginonoxa.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae3b0bb347ea74f4765e5e0ddb4fddc5/47197041946.pdf
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/99108589228.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=permission+letter+format+for+college+principal
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011068.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11068 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001287f.bin
c1251f349b7cee59630d502cbd5e6f384cdc8ddcd9bb4fc73897b5adac2eb953
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1287F 10824 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001417a.bin
4fcfa72c5a05f685a71b7867a1a5093bd0350039af31fc2146b28987d28537b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1417A 16916 bytes