Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea5641d0e0059afe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9cc7cf162cf4398fe9023a29164346d6 SHA-1: 1f5507a218f045123dd769c199d39a89906083ce SHA-256: ea5641d0e0059afe986034e45ecff42dcd1217752c793eb6709dc4302c6d8787
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is likely a deceptive invoice or payment request to encourage link clicks. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving a phishing or credential harvesting scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/nukosuzebatijixusidonife.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-31/20210831054457977186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/gobelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honda-otolongan.com/upload/files/sujozigijuwogafizune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/63933164015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/29216394517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608343618f45f---vagefosapikodozolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126f81cef058---81662942459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cc1ea86ce---16572727003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/fipapowokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607646a4bb0e8---10590824800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatlekhanh.com/Images_upload/files/54765342521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nk-sostanj.si/files/file/fojovixobakenekujumaneba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6ba4a2cca---14961431949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3953d3329ca384747d28bdfc803f9b11/79357612421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/tiwowisotibezume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emmanuelmissionarybaptist.com/clients/74938/File/16024172022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/difofazivazoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobuleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///nezakopagedusigeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/57700484674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8c2c4c88e---mulinijuxewulijawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/tuzarunorej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuminhtam.com/Images_upload/files/wuvorikaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/70669109213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=latest+rcm+list+under+gst+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_off0000e125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE125 17624 bytes
SHA-256: d557c30f1c9f79c14a58b29e2c42acc10943546d6a73ecb916dffcb18e436fdc
font_01_sfnt_off00010e69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E69 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 4a932348d603b3cadcca6bf232769e6475bdf473fabf704dae6d68f1db1aa246
font_02_sfnt_off0001275f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1