Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa966612f9c0979f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:46:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5ad7924c582c0ec17529ad567c49a42f SHA-1: b4db2a608f59418ac4154d4531f08d6a19b1e18b SHA-256: aa966612f9c0979f9f65032a79643cb858e400e1d2d4203bf24ca91fb83cab59
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic indicate the document's intent is to trick the user into clicking malicious links, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stomach+ache+after+ovulation
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tmpfv8vnjj4uqk2der7f3pjf2/furiwimapodo.pdf
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/wanimusexazulalojasema.pdf
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/zimezerabejan.pdf
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/75988719048.pdf
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/gubuwen.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ce849a6dd---84873426750.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7427b04930db972703c113c30fc94563/1817614931.pdf
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/990bdb945ea20576c3b43f3d6a7c668c/kibegigijul.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/perukib.pdf
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65919395575.pdf
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607629f73abef---rutedipuzudire.pdf
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906e941d63b---6408095517.pdf
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b1016eb0adf1f847d26f37300007001/76461225132.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf61d8d9816---51884520651.pdf
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/99433319304.pdf
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cba610148ddd68b2f2a23f1c253f1eb3/40152725731.pdf
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99e7ebad9fdfa2138f32fd8409d019d0/63426617271.pdf
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16217971564194.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fe1c36767---41990406519.pdf
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01d0041a82---regedasewusative.pdf
    • http://maristaslardero.es/userfiles/file/zepijafamoza.pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccafe6cea35ba30f9b3969df5f070081/pudifogexelat.pdf
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///863992859.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0c9c86fe29---wasaj.pdf
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2eb014ab6---63447982236.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_off0000f82a.bin
e1c74ed4f7ec2078309d77a1d077c70a7294aa0f2e3cd04e657dbb1beddba9e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82A 17504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001257b.bin
bbb7d35bddba586e31294efd94e60f65c6aa9b0f1d32813be0616bf788573711
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1257B 10672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013dc8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DC8 16792 bytes