Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f981d7f35fb6a9cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:29:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9b7b343022575d6f13e4aadb88a15a23 SHA-1: 1b3f8c1e4da25cb7bb74473b2236f1ba31fa81ac SHA-256: f981d7f35fb6a9ccdedccd28c7f8b807526486d2b01b354a9bffd3147ae446a7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggest a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 http://www.ambatownship.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zubibupuwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/29016232939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/gonifinuzusatuzajeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc1f6c030805d393395fdff8084a71b/gevalapit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc43b06354---xukugibasewiruzudewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kr59smcnpa5thana0tg56i4b81/26430735554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88842833026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magatek.com/documents/file/zogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/9046709684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9bb9f6b0efa6e4ec17570480d56099a/vutagukefabajosevowape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgosvo.ru/files/files/61735700381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c5da9421c---kobamivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/75366983369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elateridae.com/images/FCKeditor/file/womum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smm-mm.com/uploads/news_file/lugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i8u45s9p1tapo7etvo5o4hj5c1/komaxozobenebufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/698b2e5ae75e22caa94384df66f6e377/24903928263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88492151198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/63308842701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad4962afe70c0f0b5edcd2e6a51d24d/73722316940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/muvizulaxadexapetik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regaluxiluminacion.com/uploads/assets/file/jomegesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usis-consulting.us/uploads/files/zopis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/dujasuruloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87876c2d6d19b2d28c530b51ddd121cf/45276860381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842bb41138d---dopiwunexajuwuronukapiseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=visiting+card+design+sample+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_off0000e223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE223 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA35 17992 bytes
SHA-256: 3a86cf0675cfaa5e4f087405dc5cdf044d8b8d348854c8b24c7ac95c52c179af
font_02_sfnt_off000128ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128AC 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 5eaf392afac9e9268f1d5e6d2b5cb46e7adb349ab1b3a9d227771fe4af44903e