Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95d67e6c2123ebc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 04:56:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c4533068a35e607c7f9b8dae41681dd9 SHA-1: ae15dab77943244bf59fc5789354275a74530924 SHA-256: 95d67e6c2123ebc2ee005bd8eaa05fbca2c51c173a3b5f544bf77f3876764fac
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic further supports the phishing pretext, aiming to trick users into clicking the deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acta+de+nacimiento+en+ingl%C3%A9s+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paromow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2nr0shu6dhhau1uget2pp6b4aq/5272382271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a7f2cdc55---35928052677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/90726224171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87de54ec969b04a4abbe3a0139480ed/valopezebusavasodoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cungcapthitdetuoi.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/49963457039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/96340901662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/66255266258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18828ecb6b2c0b13255716d44bdbdbcc/nagoxipexowodatomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zefibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38aef5c0b2---tosupilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797a7898ecc---xerozadebapugotujezixiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f2c9b60cfa975ae8d0f1525a37ac216/rijobejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083484e0229f---88943305527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/71479767298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/65381440958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1937123521---bukobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/vegejudodobafomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school15-tyumen.ru/f/vegopasuzov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93l293v3pnv770vhsk82svnr2n/58833407747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d89c38ccb---badeleridabavibugaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/27184939579.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_off0000f273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF273 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8A 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 99de19f853101091cf76b7536ca7c36d575a3663972bff6db19c98d15819d2fd
font_02_sfnt_off0001239c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1239C 19948 bytes
SHA-256: 815cd0b159914f3eb89c54540b7a3f960d39bb2d151f13095c95caf5dc0289d9