Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f86e95c5b0f508f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 00:03:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1820b9a5ef77a39bfd58cae4aaa3dda8 SHA-1: f69738ba20f86dd50fb00961f880ce87796f6f6e SHA-256: f86e95c5b0f508f4b6246177369bcb27a2d1b2d1a6eee9a67c39db84fc1ef894
224 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 WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of advance-fee scam lures and urgency language further supports this. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely serving as a downloader for further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sum+of+the+first+n+terms+in+an+arithmetic+sequence
    • http://divodizain.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokukisanetukekif.pdf
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6dh2e1of0pn6t63se9nrrc53e/wokejejonozikoware.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lvkr8dngd9otro8e2nu31to60/88900096325.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609966b8ce2b1---tijodulikotijiw.pdf
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eadd78dcda---50444543975.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb978b5b993---zalibapoja.pdf
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0360e2d3be---genizaxunorovijewugemale.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/492d7122cb02e3507f39cf3aeb3be4e1/16217721247.pdf
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb5625fd2b---88355439260.pdf
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/mesipa.pdf
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/49999917073.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5179f77835---levurotitikuruvixiru.pdf
    • http://silverleafspa.ca/clients/10619/File/semanagugopelemajiliju.pdf
    • http://hanilkwanla.com/uploads/files/49539132472.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e822npjblqu1cre1dvm3p0bgj2/jetezobebekaxudu.pdf
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9770151e6614d1e90e54c81a0e15c5/koxoguximizop.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef8bc2b5d5---33836546565.pdf
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d4bu00v4gl9pd0ltbm7h842me/9199483095.pdf
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eu8l4urb9j75dv9v0fts41b451/71471488328.pdf
    • http://bangkoksolarpower.com/syner_upload/images/files/fimumikiladimobepu.pdf
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a51a34982---zojadev.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/255b0030efd069b1180547d62290e414/5666716767.pdf
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05765e08bd---punixuxasewebowexome.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d525.bin
0e78b8794ddaf1a546e892cf920834f3ec0a357e6c45f6ca7c158f2628eeb6f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD525 17668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000103c4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011bdb.bin
be7efcf3911393b7e1e30cc98a31157001c3f5738194b8e4a177c9b025724954
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDB 10876 bytes