Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c370788e4da5fd90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:16:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 4f9391fae43d58ca392c8851bd52f340 SHA-1: ff31c0822b99c982e1dbf586999346e765fafc56 SHA-256: c370788e4da5fd907f97358c8a6c29b837f8132df35cd05e74858dea064b1795
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm pointing to compromised upload storage and potentially disposable hosting. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to trick the user into clicking on one of the numerous embedded URLs, which likely lead to a phishing site or a second-stage malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://go-forum.cn/upload/files/39921370517.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/kewuwedafalonike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/8193787672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777ebb3dfcf---39110091285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ok1ch43r2fulmuetve3bgm08q7/tinomowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26c6e7e755---lezuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufudotijopebawapose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61310534260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b9093a2bf---luxidifijewopuxuvikaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmichaelharrisonlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/98171428244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaexploring.it/userfiles/files/vexilutimaxozipokajag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-six.it/userfiles/files/28525858947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609201d84f6ee---fuludepizirasojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roc.mn/uploads/files/bekonitozaroxiguwogefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7692667580ec12b744e4fef4384470f/mijejojalupokosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4860d91025e3c71dddb7ce1b5265c89e/surezigiwevokilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/ruxorowoxajulodenival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.greenlakecruises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xupowevomusoluwofavofara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/xojadokenekegenelubegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607263e5c0a2c---43858642516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/46867500579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3l65ol5eqgiof5n2s65cnu6rk7/walemukapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bf5a731b30---kotakidajewasonitekutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/19699203863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161181e8632dc1---10253916668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=china+banking+system+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_off0000df26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f738.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF738 17840 bytes
SHA-256: 53df6e22244632429f9a5250ff43d70ed868407bdd83205a87059d83a53cb2a4
font_02_sfnt_off0001256c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1256C 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 24524716f116dd26a577290cc8c1e3ed2adc0cd466a68d425f4bc13805f5d277