Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a332444fbfa0350a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:45:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fd804edbca14ad21cb512f09a3d5a33f SHA-1: be8dc1428593750d06fc7b7b23a7998d1d3ef933 SHA-256: a332444fbfa0350a5d9aaca88399056d4ffddffc88b6e346aebe2d662d1e8fc1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is intended to deceive users into downloading or interacting with the provided links, likely to obtain a malicious payload. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff8bf120aa3e260ded695bdd657bf3fe/virotarejaxibe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/bufirovuxepifarixapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refta-bg.com/userfiles/file/45979360853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/20160063358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41957272ba---jibaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077029a7c53a---kuvesiwelodevumewunowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da59fe67c0---zesebewagikezexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae43f5820d1---2396620571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4108014992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e0d1398b2---21635916867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f38529a23---lagijogison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c73676d421---68371691197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/luperugudogapegarigorezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607269517b8fc---44568372113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df7b17c856bd0fc635d709ca1ae8aee5/20744411628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef504e6015---fukuvewemeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82bg6cibbinp2092bknv22ilsh/6018282127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210529_214710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedoro.ru/upload/file/belipap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/xanamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c605dab2a6f2a81ec89c7c08adb781a/28348386329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/49323090095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/42361598661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://by-express.com/upfiles/editor/files/39715268195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=freight+charges+on+goods+purchased+are+accounted+for+asPDF 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_off0000edfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFA 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 08e420219b513d12bb9f0a71006c7dea655300417a1271db247d169d79e350c8
font_01_sfnt_off00011c8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134A5 10932 bytes
SHA-256: b4d93d8a334a6bc655edda51bfcef55573e670737b78fda8f94cf515effb76eb