Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc0bf05989c0df36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:56:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: bafbc99b2f961773a864ecadea14e996 SHA-1: c8ed11169b0edf449ba88144681d621f9a8914ce SHA-256: dc0bf05989c0df362f627da86ce6dfacbde026d8b39dc02534698dea9616305c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'invoice' or 'payment' language further supports a phishing or scamming intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=land+lease+agreement+format+in+bengali+language PDF link annotation
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/89018751757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b474b5f0a---zinijotajibimiragodojewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078325193a3d---46655621573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0606651464a230a36f422bd11445424/senimojere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4b6e2943751a441788d441c8c47e084/93088673102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a09be57c88---25229949100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769d7c4ce31---xakakugisawojuriruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/gexogerujudeduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee17d27e05---25793819589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/41084884886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/83596311517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/12372155427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/bibemexuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ba2e63abf---digozedumivefiwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dad21d9d566c728fdb0851d19022250/zujobexuxikafipaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6828819d3a880811949af9594d829d0d/71915505390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf0a32e212---8977758402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b41fd774b---nigogileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34ebaead2a9bfa18802d7f14c3335a16/tagigezidujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a77gkkjdkoe5pnqtvso4ecf61i/noluwimakalodebuxore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/45092067870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rowenenufezonuwedanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb29bd01e6---67137989290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petrduchek.com/files/64458060262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/234508e705180c5afe716ac75dba6e47/72573789576.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_off0000f2c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C0 16960 bytes
SHA-256: b6a84c47fdeb6a01b2927562d3a3f6651a431da192da8d78197e99dbf18eb0ba
font_01_sfnt_off00011ec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC1 10896 bytes
SHA-256: c01629d1a520f7fb1cd3498b6b3c9cac98aedba925b382701656c3a6a16a3ae7
font_02_sfnt_off000137b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1