Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a34b331e11a22125…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:18:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 76fad993b2abd21a03df9e697143d954 SHA-1: 0af12c85b0891bcc9eaa70b152425171d5a6a8b2 SHA-256: a34b331e11a22125dc27bb0a6f9991d4d62604bd5f1ce0b06458382233d87bbd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to mimic an invoice or payment request, further supporting a phishing or scam-related attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/99120734624.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1cf945723---59641266404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongamold.com/fckeditor/upload_files/file/gufoxonadofifenaviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e8be5074a---mafapido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angeladaniel.eu/uploads/files/duxejojizanojuvawirowadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlitalia.com/userfiles/files/garigure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/wukumezage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59731181262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haumeaonline.com/userfiles/file/bidafowosuzusabevijokugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c56ae9fa9a0eeb10eafff59124d92e6/rigizulunanulolodolupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futboltotal.net/images/files/19248817843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c81bc6847337412a73d63e95248c26cb/12909284991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/29425688049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a02822341a7ebd765f8977637228253/72176900294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elyriacatholic1970.com/clients/7/79/79c6984f8945646ae1b55d50a6b4dbab/File/xukasozixabudasiveke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117057a4639d---54476512996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77777924545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranch.pl/files/file/30494194029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clinicaepilepsia.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/medezofadapaladade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/digorufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d811a909658---15116282520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e571d3c4d0---momorepifarodotosomegibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7072a9e35a5c0b4377cfaa0fe7cf1583/30782855724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=slip+gaji+karyawan+swasta+pdfPDF 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_off0000c8ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0FC 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0aff635445a0ad1d3513fb819e36010e3aed6c69668b407a943beeded159a3
font_02_sfnt_off00010ca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA8 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 9e219b7a2503f38dc7eaec7a134ebf219646613828610b907d5b90985326c0d5