Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 691309ec686f9184…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:24:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9dd5cb6028690dfdfa2a7db0293b0783 SHA-1: c25c7a7b6af3b785496c4a42ec858a935217b217 SHA-256: 691309ec686f91848cd83825ac678389356b885e8fec483866f73b5453daef6c
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malware. The presence of urgency and invoice lures in the document body further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/karexivi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://farmaciacogliate.it/userfiles/files/zabuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/jozexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestinoequitacion.com/imagenes/upload/files/10099938156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ku2fq3ui68ps6trnqcrmvhbdfs/71794737766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/961fea309b8d0e2ca2de8da39968ba83/musokomujutapabobowuwuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/jijogupetenewawizezosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/zubisofagarukune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/15259076541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xatrbio.com/userfiles/file/labigaxerav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/48258815948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/gubovifasenumopeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf9b614d54---gelagejusunaxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859e807fa5e---kiwowijasuwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/nabage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosrem.org.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9726663963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b60cd468302629f1f382e8e612870637/50804336063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826e87027aa---66799615258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4398b00742---sutagorolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1df9455aa981a17fee6572573eab200e/gajote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161007ad9c16d2---xosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/204c51dc8f0e9834be5bfe1b5da9019b/kuvozofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f11b32914---1905105303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/banoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=goar+euchologion+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_off0000ebc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103DF 10772 bytes
SHA-256: fdc8fc1aea0974546a0b400d7b323aac42171a8b3a5b0133e9dd1150f54e5a9e
font_02_sfnt_off00011c51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C51 18700 bytes
SHA-256: eb1a1f083afe2736af4fc608741c3cdd8e8d5dbe4b909b0910c083713ffa8efe