Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0100ea31ddec057…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.7 KB Created: 2021-05-15 01:32:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: e16138b9a1a751104afe9f9d4f9c32a6 SHA-1: 23ddfa80784779825b3fa95a9cc5c54bbcd24b24 SHA-256: c0100ea31ddec057ca6bc6bf3b70686be0cced85960d3b3fcaf172aea3a42304
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The heuristics suggest it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites, likely to download a second-stage payload. The presence of invoice-related text further supports a social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/juvidopagitomiku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4ddbt9rghe9i1hcchd8qmo98o/90886491053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891cbbd81ab---7541786466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a71737f15---basuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/is0l77rt3rts9ho0ioeuh8eehu/zaxilunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609600bf62e4d---38320288336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8795a610fd768b07058931046fb44cc/govejutivusisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/99146044698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93beb506c668baf433e3a482278f165c/wexopobeberovisapajik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bdb3085bd860d0180d932edb9906619/15991497902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f129538492---54694966550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bd330ccec---84828678233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af1410737f---kunomebonetevesoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b2ab60c1012fc18c4309ccd610f4c0f/xibubego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/vufugetaxemobapimokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087789356b4c---tadijogawodewumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=personal+income+statement+and+balance+sheet+formatPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16911 5404 bytes
SHA-256: cd26def12eb3c7e5d4f3fda26f432d745b27e15213d586d5c6211097aedd7904
font_01_sfnt_off00017b3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B3D 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 14302094e7bc10acee171aef930f7b15b17eb280805759644f2abd09bd870fc6