Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 694207e1bbc87bf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 23:24:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f9528c5a0d99c70eb9e9bd0b0568f873 SHA-1: c2f7e500e59672e9fe9b86a4e10102c564efdb78 SHA-256: 694207e1bbc87bf7134b7951b3a652e4d085924b897efc3928b6c03a109f6e77
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to lure users to external resources. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' further supports the phishing pretext, likely aiming to trick users into clicking the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/950f157266a30552843a98b7dbe6d8f4/besoxuwikof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fab5a3aeb6d38ec0d901fa663fe9e298/xevotarolumisagemogilizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9205bb4281---kagesazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3102a615d9---79183425038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823a8f29efb---77347869425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksu27u47dfb6366nklp5200duf/luzofiterirajizodubefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9046aa72be3dd473e34a4a5f2011c5a1/31666332456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oue2nnju2m8h03qlbcmr3b769p/vegebexegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motacademy.it/file/27146674526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sclifeguards.com/clients/16854/File/97830378710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tr256v163n4rebfrpa4k3cnvae/22473139324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c12271d094---tivezafuxevekivokadisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9fbc457ab38b3b4d1e3aa8ddeaf7af6/12829204523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7cf75cfe99c349456835f2a0b9dcc4/lozufevizivosire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b902629c84f---67996333566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710e24a641c---70500289231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/45928127328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradleyhillsapartments.com/demo/uploads/contents/file/47201284330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uppercanadatwocylinderclub.com/clients/877835/File/mesativotovubap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6785c02a98---28367838621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=financial+accounting+questions+with+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_off000140db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000158ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158ED 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3fff4d1ffefad9afc223e984c248c61b87bfc53a2960d017f37db462e38b58
font_02_sfnt_off000186be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186BE 10820 bytes
SHA-256: af8a3dc6698018fa19099c3e17517fcfb1938234e300d3381a9869298542de50