Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea3d953a8b373bc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:03:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a007331a400354452b7e3c85f2b67034 SHA-1: d2ef5e8aabf0edc4af0fccdcc92f36919485892f SHA-256: ea3d953a8b373bc22b8a90da165914c36f0acbd2391f09a9ce3ac8d88d8c8650
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute a payload. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic further supports the phishing pretext by indicating the document mimics an invoice or payment request to encourage user interaction with the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebcf7a5431---fugufijufu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/jeganosonajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/tufaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/sutikasoxonerewanuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dc6b9ed5af2ae5626c9118aed666f47/16202991519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8529ab8677cc3d5f2e618dbfc1947fa0/11887548719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/48607427300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/zedixomenijexatosizamaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161025be0bf405---gosofijokoxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pet.nfe.go.th/m_site/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafevelanuzakesekirawoxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65601469e3baf91d64036a5b880de09a/4144211122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttfi.org/app/webroot/userfiles/file/55338509317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/lajidiminufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0t55d7lumsm6ooe4dfq2m6hfa/kugewotezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d3f045461---39736502674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/58663662837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoggard1975.com/clients/a/a4/a43fc1111b7ad4318f8b553feb79a890/File/30121905555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/dugedozakojulafenid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1e34fd52d8e7c1303d8209a1b503af3/76468013876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ortechindustries.ca/ci/userfiles/files/kewuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/95689503620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouwservicewinthagen.nl/userfiles/image/file/karixuriwutajowixos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/rebivorazasijarezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/samijos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/nilededizinilivulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=your+withholdings+for+taxes+are+determined+byPDF 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_off0000d682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD682 11328 bytes
SHA-256: e79e743a5b166b4532c410aa4e23b5e1601ea35c5dd7af993db72d2f27f19ff9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E1 17080 bytes
SHA-256: c3f1aacb00b3ccb8b351c16aa1bab56f1abf31dfb789b3a8f6c67f65703da871