Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fed1bafced544e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-07-30 12:24:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 99eb9ded807af57ce3432cb110955155 SHA-1: 64a61e83e63b61d2a058edb8a11382ea7c878d3c SHA-256: 8fed1bafced544e4fe2551dac38d554c581547d4e1290a747ecb2a9d8ee6b87a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' further supports a social engineering pretext for the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///99502626313.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f94c934462e8e7b7923cbfd844e7a02/85198934853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9imc36ghp827c7j49qjrcnj7si/roluviromofuwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68cq7pl5cf2c2cc93a7eputnpl/sikutugolumimomepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/kiriwadisik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/lelodirixifufivipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f8054b3cc8ee98932b2b321c1497f5c/47989302723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn705e8i69c3j5rg48fjdc4o6p/kuboxesulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riccaassociati.eu/userfiles/files/betesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vignolaweb.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gesuvisebudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epqcmh7fmgmcqo2rels3ui7huf/29710765052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8f1561462---95187028054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/sugivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/44452247716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fea22e2b2f5---pidufejumek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artsar.pl/userfiles/file/34851554353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2e783552a4abd71327882f9570f9033/mawigipiwefodulasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beac220798a700edd106c9c0f7cf16e2/76793592837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasakodagakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/bosebiwubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/32468269964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d4d02b70a---82185358495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/88839243185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mortgage+loan+amortization+schedule+excel+templatePDF 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_off00010066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10066 18840 bytes
SHA-256: cf881aa7e8a967e3b24a1001b14b08ba4b8413f880ad88373e21e2a459ace968
font_01_sfnt_off00012f81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F81 11216 bytes
SHA-256: f5bcba30a82d7888b4ccaf532cc498faaf665f55d6134df31c33feb222d8a586
font_02_sfnt_off00014976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14976 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1