Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee199655c59d1d97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:30:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7d30e1b39cabc0b7feaf726e56d704f1 SHA-1: 8ed1f7493fe24c30868861b966acdfeb581ab0f4 SHA-256: ee199655c59d1d97e0850d0b0bd915335c36dd7cef793786dbdea514ae110e90
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and other unknown hosts. The presence of invoice-related language suggests a lure to trick users into clicking these links, which likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b136e6f80c922af9768167104d888e9b/54147332052.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gazetavk.ru/img/file/pajakeleregokitudasilize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e46107ebf9---kegitopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/majimegujewawitepodoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1a4a67603---58836723750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijaetis.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womowusodisugatufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zibumuzorigami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/sexozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/45172698443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210512/210512072129568678rv6d5gi0kmuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779b0b29eb2---57105630340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa76ab1c9e7ee3aa9220a6748ec87931/pulezewujorozilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081efc46986f---rejipemapovaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.gr/upload/vizesusosusadalomitogamar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/869253918b8828492898d2048d79e5f8/52844887341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/29176865177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/pomizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c8411c526---60983596892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9ejuok5n9gj4en60ms9vpuk80/75470192271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/31417227627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021052507010973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk82isf0i3hc7t52qls2tm3864/21463498681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ledger+book+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_off0000d4b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B5 17172 bytes
SHA-256: aecfbbf7095dc6ba9e16f6b92a391ac5ca7d26d7324d6fdec776a5edef102009
font_01_sfnt_off00010113.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10113 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001192a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1192A 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 1f860c280d87db1ae4a85662d1488f296ac3f972dc65bd56e52a83b6ba5946e4