Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1ecfa0c6d90236d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 10:34:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6be7fe830a18c2f0e6b1e466670339c4 SHA-1: b767b351305443e991f44ccea4db482ef9beffab SHA-256: b1ecfa0c6d90236dd580a725ac62281c9b71e554a3f1914e8561d7296bc245c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file 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, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of invoice-related language further supports the phishing lure attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=euro+to+aud+converter PDF link annotation
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e19d8843bb862ede17cf9d6e274d3739/93274376915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db6657b1616f95bad0ebc299aa7363ed/raretufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korea-seals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24310359848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48ae37932640ef4a1ae8d8c1a31af335/93938225014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d6065bc49286070ffb7804abea1a029/56229052800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37878429571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/95306929827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/87240411240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82eaad1be86940c29137112f3b3a29f4/nezuvunagiluvig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubak-ubezpieczenia.pl/userfiles/file/71915017127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shelton1961.com/clients/35589/File/23363940133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c55d42b045---93410019222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aytekinpolatel.com/image/files/81911920017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c81c7a45f---tulejoxazagezizutenefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e8b214e30d---poluvamirufep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomnhenryanderson.com/clients/8/8a/8a1068334c160bb49438aafe8043afff/File/lusulukeboxebilusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609730de99a00---76215509915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/neridarawumodenixiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608710452aa5a---mofebapiwesateguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bd4ad2bd51f6799d4749bd40b13d09e/71891628071.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_off0000e18b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18B 10204 bytes
SHA-256: e1e55a65ca75c03fc363e2994294739334050bf190d2a76b1353be5ea93c9d1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF894 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 39d281ebc93c8cd9d121f86d393964b436a0645ebed3f7e9901523810d956716
font_02_sfnt_off00012830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12830 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1