Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5b3193f073cdc29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.9 KB Created: 2021-05-26 14:09:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 759f406c80f08f9fcf55fa8ab6720136 SHA-1: 33f658bb0538ab07e67fc2fb89ace4185e96673e SHA-256: f5b3193f073cdc293e20d619c72bdac54c44e323d7f494a4d668d32f24d38c5d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' further suggests a phishing pretext, although the document body itself is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+noclip+geometry+dash+2.11+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/fikeramekidozasafinig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/losopipiludove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37a4d21c30f62e7b63107b87e2f2c7da/96164341795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48f25c5cc78493a5556d60396936cf59/nunewenojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/pejenovojedepimex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e097a2ed360b4acc8432c48bee2f151f/51839336297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a827af0eb94---sasujadivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/20774612461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b50394a4db91d0d81c471f4358fc51a/natigadumop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e6aa59b10---zogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90497da4e---38869250842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733bb71bc01---55921967662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcf28cb88d---99456316646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab650ae8076---22889873479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/486de3f4ccd4033de26149b79501560d/23554114657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0001801e.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1801E 24724 bytes
SHA-256: ccc0092bc9a0ff0ce366d86565fb7c40f162dfc675646bbcc266f9f35e4d8c0d
font_00_sfnt_off0001363a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1363A 2880 bytes
SHA-256: b90b109c34db9b2d961be312c0c64f13ba4f5af9c83d6ae4556a72cb7f468167
font_01_sfnt_off00014078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14078 5896 bytes
SHA-256: 3611da4f3b41ecdae1b723b062c9263c53729a8189fd9fdc50d08e5549d16b65
font_02_sfnt_off00015489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15489 13728 bytes
SHA-256: 402efa6003d9227fe45964e5ac30295bc6b60d9959579b5a1bd984018e78bcc4