Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9afa83230443a27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:08:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7ed38fe461641c6e56780102835311da SHA-1: 10eac4e627ce0c167c5fe32d85e38287f86fa0ea SHA-256: e9afa83230443a27d1f6cf3129d0c141d69e19bfdea029af79ccf241e4a60345
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that exhibits characteristics of a malicious lure. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into performing an action, likely downloading the linked PDF. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of multiple external links and the ML classifier's high confidence score point to malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+time+series+forecasting+with+python+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l167i4h87bg2qubko3begm1er2/wasobezutenekibovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/43225655136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/tarixepamezuneniwajujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a2d088d95b9e52daea3249b2032e2b0/75483207213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b1f428badb---70130808132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci3onne28n9i9gganejshdns08/virikapodonivojevafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56228845bf---18142684503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/faxaxovajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b5945399513c5cad40ced7fb1e1d6d6/71188164823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d0e1ed0c1e725b6188aa0a706e16fef/sizifavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqokgj8tgjrmkc2jtj59b7nduu/37119466572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0khtodaimembethcph7alhncgt/66769879711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/93894440042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/6826787404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2a81609118---mekafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/6987927591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/38462476907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8k7t3o9g9pd5thachquucttbh/7383013779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96546236758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/gijubatiwoxaruwezafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77d4690542---zufotubudekibep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74410963529.pdfIn 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_off00012b77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B77 19080 bytes
SHA-256: 3c0895911151b9ccf861beef0e79cea918860c7c4865ec2d98bd8022ae9b7d10
font_01_sfnt_off00015c21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C21 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 03ad8d65932adbc88aa9229e1df1d1694ea5206c256117717a2f291439b188a3
font_02_sfnt_off00017673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17673 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1