Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6d67a09b044aa93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-08-02 07:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e57ce4bda9004183c6cea2bb7bfa0d9d SHA-1: 144a907cabf104d971147ca463154d5a5661305f SHA-256: b6d67a09b044aa93aa33265a140a8a888fb53c6a8d085b02439822c580f03742
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' indicates the document's content is designed to trick the user into clicking these links, likely to download further malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acknowledgement+of+debt+template+nz
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/wexivadese.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090093a07795---7132102113.pdf
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/6429801962.pdf
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/48985558817.pdf
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/25482683888.pdf
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/34221795254.pdf
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1825b63ed3---kozokaxa.pdf
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/ruxozowole.pdf
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee36ad2fb3---sozipawotiz.pdf
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents//files/pezitabizonosubo.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de9a4e2fa5d---vipidalanuriniw.pdf
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ef045103d---60537786002.pdf
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16jm1thitn75onbefk6o45dv1e/somogifipixinidokadune.pdf
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/63303861708.pdf
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab85c2b7016a50ced3f04dca1730de4b/wuxibibifatuki.pdf
    • http://phutungquanghieu.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/bokuwupixokitukob.pdf
    • http://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tivafomi.pdf
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/53062921246.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/742ee775fcb0471aa39c3f0d22e36cda/57665612647.pdf
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b37da6b7a8b---44967320661.pdf
    • http://veterinariacasettamattei.it/userfiles/files/fokefadom.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_off00010521.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10521 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d38.bin
27cca800b7ec35422cfe17538cc3fa187a5dc3e0ae904accfffde79a77ffe425
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D38 10960 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013659.bin
67a68711db80c4c8e0cd1c4254129b3b7b1e2020cf6e8d293fcfde510025cf0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13659 17228 bytes