Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e0fa4e6f6ffaf1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-14 18:20:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: baaacc3b4f26ab5939c1f04857421549 SHA-1: e38b65c5f8e3f3d52160bec1ef7d1bbd26451cfb SHA-256: 7e0fa4e6f6ffaf1f0dd48f4bcd6a7cb4e91ce93fcc9241e6d5a6607580457eb3
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains lures related to invoices and download buttons, directing users to external URLs that host further PDF files, likely as part of a download chain. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and link farms on disposable hosting suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gst+rcm+invoice+format PDF link annotation
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021051511481162636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb8bdb4bdd---3899096624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file/%5C/23344544098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0af78d7d9---jepati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/kibeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/zubedurukokujebilesutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021051319210270554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9abcc3bb4---xuvodidebepuguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bclgrouptt.com/userfiles/file/morovoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/jojemasafivevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/ralirororuliviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd18329178---27301837483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcpbhed0cdllgm9c4ocunl7o15/pebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91644003a6e7686bedea41523c540f64/47521498742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a758eca4e3b---soxaxizigipokitavuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7425588d1---52001709831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010d62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D62 5084 bytes
SHA-256: d4a65095c2bfd080d1acce996b00251cd7f45dc6b6400c2e5d2ffd27919fdeb1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ea5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA5 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 1d88ddd0a782f0e8330254caf4e49eabc42457c7ed90f853171fd6ced38d1563