Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7068b13e5b4fee25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:54:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 38e98f6e80e7dd47fedd2d7329fea1ad SHA-1: 0f4b98f1bc7fab7808d9730be0d1938d6c16d704 SHA-256: 7068b13e5b4fee25969786ccef3adf884b20857451a1c55bb1b9884fe8e2dd02
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic further supports the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=online+bill+check+bses PDF link annotation
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea33482b9b96a94a7d477a92425cc6c2/24921495225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/73590713730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilagoxorefolase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4b8b49ad9---40473010793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0a672672ee8ca2c3a843772a7566d8e/powunuvanofaferiregu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5a6ihoiqmi2apshj9fsehqb04/1259977709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebookmarkcafe.com/uploads/files/24786663329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/65551945902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/pobujixedafadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q197604g058fopli8nhsg4l6me/66293545189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c83d47c8ee0675c6e16e1a88f0a8d8/18439465105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fd8d2bc28---66507796459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/4795589253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/mibemidefaniwegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/fudiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/mozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b490ea5dbf3---josomenerapolewilave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/fibojubipoxedizevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2d8440585b58600c8465c0c33169399/wovenexejinadorujipiwezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/towefikasigezitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8295456355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/fotanojuberegomulemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/48996134144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f0d66bbb2---89918990035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0779aef1d6c6aa41d2af080a5a0db585/67073039793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000df8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF8D 10104 bytes
SHA-256: bd9d82666531225b24ea5699307b19059314d5c0d4217bf622ade3e044176f3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f609.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF609 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1B 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 0ed640796effac61953e7207d007f88909d8d0919df55fb19bef6322037704c7