Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb31242f1a17b4c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 13:37:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 65125acc380cc73ad8bee5694072f447 SHA-1: aeba8061414774be05a0e53b1d2b679b8000c137 SHA-256: eb31242f1a17b4c874983e9b4880a8c08eafeed46754c152e0be1aebceae6164
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms and appear to be part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The presence of the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic, combined with the ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the overall structure point towards a malicious document intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc10de6d85c---litokap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/35172277503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d58da9ceaac4958d35144d3f1a5e184/80803926359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/fisetavakixolasaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/30843652808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/32367328519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents//files/21237681858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1fd871bc5---99735612059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f557e8b1ea94794de242467c66383e3/gigasise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q37oaj4d6eb1th2fo9f2rsbqvd/68055824689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5cb038ef9926338a9e8c4b7255c9a00/botokubigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7fab0c97a---dofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b634b49f1209a53689e80683f11a05b/miginenawado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0310edf27---vudiwufurodirejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5c013184c---tinidavume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cuq2g1vlv5l59q3ouv0jus2gr3/kemoxalexekewisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/29107997484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/gakekolaxifudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/299512b29070d4eb13a948053d9f3310/92129341080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/lulimutegurulamin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopekerala.com/userfiles/file/jozuxipadoradudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609287a1c6409---rekirisusekidajipesapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ce4dc96bc---rujanuvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160953e3a977ed---virejavobibividufotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=indemnity+bond+format+for+courtPDF 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_off0000ecea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEA 10728 bytes
SHA-256: bb94518d848914ea3d8c57698b494c2f318c3e9385bfccbd8a738cf6579327bb
font_01_sfnt_off00010587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10587 18600 bytes
SHA-256: 58a8b515ffbe3019ac4b630540279dac9b3d850418b5c343019d9eca49573f40
font_02_sfnt_off000135c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1