Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7c4ceb45d2f188a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:36:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6a930b35262650fd66fe955e1f5fe781 SHA-1: de21cda1834029e5ef183aa359ce8e6b9f96a753 SHA-256: f7c4ceb45d2f188afb52988fab54f55568990c61e02b35f33cbb693d794621fd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing pretext, and the ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9234

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://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04205b779711d748cfe4d6f24295a410/51518840610.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2641c48bc3bde973ec8b04112123892c/labofokowegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/banirimesuwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878e39947d9---34350798522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f495a4f36---19326825436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsportedinburgh.org/userfiles/files/gitulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e8fc6813b---sujabubazupawonom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0aa13293d---82354107924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monroehighwildcats.com/clients/40160/File/sepagakasejafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0d848655de2c238b7ef2757945ebea2/weparatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1586500ee3d9bb80f1b65619613a5b11/mowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/690fc4da6c1d9472b2fb198df46176e0/91388296119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/kopitubira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/dudawawumotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607835a697630---lomilamujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8233c22a0---87531597237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6ddae7711---fubiguguxari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719ffd57d36---89408411214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/9699392502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soltendance.com/stockages/files/rokuvomalolerubemajakusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/98014582395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097026529ddc---3238592648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/12300622490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce10dbe51e---74850683147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1ce2624cf9---kuposovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/wuraba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=missionary+style+picsPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE1A 32716 bytes
SHA-256: acf659b34488cb8582ca0f7f5dc3fee8224a4924ea42bf1352733fb312c14e34
font_01_sfnt_off00014b18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001632f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1632F 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 2f39ed660ac2bb849896f63ec7d273be2cb1320e832ccbeeee9227cee6a0de88
font_03_sfnt_off00017b24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B24 8312 bytes
SHA-256: 313b526132b8ed37365ce1018428ff3a296e0a06e24ea4bd7fcbf1784ac0de04
font_04_sfnt_off000196ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x196AB 23672 bytes
SHA-256: 6b5735a4398f9fa21f92418bafcedd9741d5dbaa787a85564a9a597e8c04d18e