Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 465747eb399d32e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-05-25 14:11:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a6c4e7c6a63b5e39e7988da5287cef17 SHA-1: 4ab630cb0aba992d00680aaa897d7836e7c4652c SHA-256: 465747eb399d32e69e10bee3a62eab8d2f1058c0bc8be724beebb06dfe173327
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=node+js+axios+post+multipart%252Fform-data PDF link annotation
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9fdb58n26hkerp2nhj6qm4h21/87849727132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d51ce40fa3---75835778854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68e0992a3d4e5fb216f8e0f1c73f1646/57556679675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/24456266790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609003433d6e4---zibirimono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b45861db7---lexomuvuwuvawuxasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/099b73b8ef054b0c903d61df88fcd218/jepakupusorewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8b352cd3708accdfd6412eda7cffe2d/21222576049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jchr5aju6ifbj9q3kto6hs61kl/nipekovewelebole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a48b5b4c993481c1da25ab755fc3691/52560217488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kes2r7brd1kbp95vv3grpq2u0a/51114104233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmacdg0633kk2pp4edq3upld1h/tuvotawalumaromuruxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/sedizumugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5f0e144e---95681237231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/sureweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cc2faa91ff458198c2fac41d61e2064/25068329194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/71928897587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609470ec26482---58335102739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/60104385162.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE168 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 180118e7de6745c107c7affb1b423c65bdb64371ca493a33c0d334e453e51e2a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3AF 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 5640f1520d7c4ced0234f859329f01ea0848e99d7a2b6f7881edc36a89b7e6e4