Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f019529b32ae6e52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:46:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: adc85fb4436ec137cdf495d60d553e55 SHA-1: 0be3102e3a3cc804731e5db405d23c8068e01972 SHA-256: f019529b32ae6e52f2e692694a067f807eff9003183df34fdbfe078d6ecc2a77
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is likely a fake invoice or payment request, a common social engineering tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bded591af48---sukel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/potoravelinusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf03388745e---tusepenemowabenela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/44201624898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65d8063f230af3c6ec6bed14ec28e2f3/52741401382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/931ea5470cc083ccfed88720b9d43126/luzumaloduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/13680314849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/18452774822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-coeur-du-temps.com/userfiles/file/ruxakosiresipifafojozukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077aaf457bdd---muxanudamagata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210612_4093EC45066A449C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogalata.it/userfiles/files/xonakufufinufojasivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3caec05a4f613713d62778785d0724a3/58339773616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896a202353575deac077107d940b9737/60147404944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40037942412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021052507250373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/kasifegebimuwerakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/22605374599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63d90dd22dce3b138e9f2f28bf25c929/jitameru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haisushitogo.com/uploads/files/50414827850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24cpto1ail991981hu14uo316i/wuwefajopesimiruneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bba87a7d2e0fc6df9bbb8b4b3b132855/jerigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnsonsdynastyincfamilyassociation.com/clients/10108/File/zedawexixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p5div6uj6f4o9meevm8v84bmvd/tofokigunosibuxiteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210525/file/sigifomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ghee+and+cholesterolPDF 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_off0000be1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE1A 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 3ec57b3406ee4b20866e08daae2c59c89ac6cfeed457dd1228095ae119453eae
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000edbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBE 15260 bytes
SHA-256: da0ab9a2c4787a7e4736a07ee5ca42694410cfaa4eaf609567f1737b677af8f8