Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0f69d35f933798e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 23:41:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8e3da7efa98b514f72856f9e6531e0ec SHA-1: ccde1b2399948ae8c705090b353be099b0a807fc SHA-256: a0f69d35f933798ee0185eb0c0f29f78e96bc4f6deee0d074f694407a1e51efd
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 presence of 'invoice' and 'payment' in a URL parameter, combined with the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic, strongly suggests a phishing attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the links indicate it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=invoice+payment+synonym
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4c45af4ce---lasojolobapegugume.pdf
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32a69d38f9bf3aae7c7123a1cac25c64/16665028675.pdf
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607665fe4ff4b---16892930609.pdf
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fae9d1807e556aeb3209dade67a41b61/mumifisebaxudiditogigulow.pdf
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/weretikegufizijanuwikib.pdf
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh0uirpf1o4d848djd0vlgssoa/26998179653.pdf
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/batovenukatojek.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkmcpsnab7uotuq029nru34krf/gamoti.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1abb39e9cc---wikusizibajuzipoxid.pdf
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021630174298212.pdf
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4684a79a3d483a76ffdc2d659d242709/wivoxikenakoxozogo.pdf
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/30871009516.pdf
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/30380286953.pdf
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1cdff1a20c---rotadutofekofem.pdf
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/56588987420.pdf
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc37645cb8b---92876326444.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a4768a116e246538e58152f90d4220d/gutaw.pdf
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/8893774096.pdf
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/tapep.pdf
    • https://silga.ca/userfiles/file/26559544818.pdf
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/16285993226.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e932.bin
832f7a83ea974f6c3703132d69465ab70df7a20484c5f8f6e6d6c9ce689555be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE932 10520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010133.bin
96f467c6693dcf2a08bf7caa4a9bf4488b7473e9b3608f27bfa2b180c8a5167d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10133 17156 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012de3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE3 16792 bytes