Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f7595d025a705d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-08-07 19:05:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ef25db62c5c0a19913029c4fccd759e1 SHA-1: eeb852d561ae8a30b51aa896f15231af0579903f SHA-256: 5f7595d025a705d98db959714de6c5008bc76c9ee08aa066f17fac2c7eb59242
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations and appear to be part of a link farm designed to lure victims. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' indicates the document's content is designed to resemble an invoice or payment request, further supporting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789afd3affa---zosapagujakisosovefuvigov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/58206466593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a78e6bbc2---deradokefebejevapebafalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d355b7b7474d766b108b4ead4d052a90/zaroritoxavekorateta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083124c2549f---66839182598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097753272b20---55393781966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cunningham-reunion.com/clients/7/73/7399477c88ef979e1ad3ac38e42cffcc/File/xibuwabokexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3624b2d5b93348adbbeffe07437b61e4/bowifububiboliregufizaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/zanomujaxedazegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokijafabefatepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xorizirikomuxosetusipexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/59668973448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17d577874e3f4270d5d895a0e974d974/raboxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/bexatesakasorokemaxojosut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b41a44c7ac1---65545586140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/043764404dcae74aab3985bd380b44e4/lomomubalepokolanigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/jupubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e96a4d790f2dd7598fe5294cba1bff48/95523759306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd691e93b32cc35ecb08c0151972e2c1/78149527291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/lukalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c943d43549---midexavipegili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35b640d8da7ed5ee7d301787cce318c3/59870827033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=gst+payment+voucher+format+pdfPDF 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_off0000d28d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD28D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA4 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 1287d9efb5458a080e76765fccda32a030654cebdeaf19098cea68386f21a2a2
font_02_sfnt_off0001044f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044F 16440 bytes
SHA-256: 3f329ae5674b0481563aadb740a7a9859d5650660cdd0f115266921cbf3cae8a