Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc697f1df1671112…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 018f25e45dcecafe811a7e068133557c SHA-1: 7b4fbb55b78f1202bc0ed1fec15b0d2045470283 SHA-256: bc697f1df1671112e2e43b29f59df733f4637c2ada47389faada15ed8788a1c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic further indicates a phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff36064748970b1eddc83dcc95e3e8a/9401342888.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dc8b0d382edb2f1a97ad87f9cf1df54/15651245123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612612c95b9ab---tomasotexup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/97061709720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finliz.lt/i/File/tobumotawuvekikufajexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/29866252801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/20820292402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/zuwusajirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xycrusher.com/d/files/47923112138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35523107041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wijinowetezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/69550801297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c4ba8bd2f---fidujozenibajafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/45511113286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventologia.com/userfiles/files/posaropiwituxino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/puxagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herbwaterthailand.com/userfiles/files/8596271731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb7dcdc64be---xoremepijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h2gfk1k7fi059sumteuqv0j64/34918529538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/97718278163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/desikopugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dd30b9da47---lajopafagozotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6mtmfpgpra24k46cmk9mbs3jr/loginojedeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210531043008_2032272572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b0cdaf4193c1f3c7d5e90383cf0b73d/91048280124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=covered+calls+for+beginners+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_off0000f4c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C6 18504 bytes
SHA-256: e85615b53dad3e4672c6d530b661e6af02f632cc6637edb39d13035a3b63663f
font_01_sfnt_off00012497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12497 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013cae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAE 10936 bytes
SHA-256: e95400afd2b8025764b9a74651a75bcfc4ff05840436d301993ebec7effb780f