Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85654e7984456964…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 06:14:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 959f191327827d89f9a261510ca21741 SHA-1: 6a956b200161e77a861475f5356f4ca62d39f3c3 SHA-256: 85654e7984456964c54d39a4800d9264d6dd202288744029f92cf1f9c7f1a668
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' suggests the document's content is designed to deceive the user into clicking these links, likely to download a secondary payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jum1i51om16dvs9jlkl9e0onga/17711751002.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b4d15bac3cfd5896c8e85c2bf91b0d5/94751205456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/2138991010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1uirtnodh95lrtapr808ctt010/15083225713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c62d4929289567e6ff7d2aa2a5c5e75/latabileliwivaxumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/26785884540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21c4d57eaae0a4073cff6d03c8cab055/rirokirorezexonuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/606339de4c634d8f8cb2ceb91f5e9d3e/62061922324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoganamogujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/file/12624592044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commune-bourre.com/userfiles/file/wuwavoxokufinadulapejeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d5f9a958dcd70a48412f4f7568038c9/selav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59327abc78411029705335438b4b31b0/89232371371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyland-nsk.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99521669649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46b6da2b7a187e9db9c81ccd3024a43d/femebefofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/wewazibeguzuranurorise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/zikogejesimafirokagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/biojq9npl2e3p862vn0ski81j8/migavurijela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/lapedafonininefasikake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c829d762da---8897949630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/83488739787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5l895viofhd1pvqs3vpl3ct65a/fofogazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=therefore+in+tagalogPDF 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_off00016456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16456 10288 bytes
SHA-256: fa03a53ed0a8b6d622894122e5a9ff3e58a7c27f7e6bf30ad421daa6be333919
font_01_sfnt_off00017b6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19381 20052 bytes
SHA-256: 094868ce9f6f338ce41b8692253c714e93cdccb7fa52b6b590523534d4c41da5