Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 467fbc890112efdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:08:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: eae0e5910044d2bf8cba53ec95a81a3e SHA-1: 192d23928a785ae33de788ce3861b5189d8d18a2 SHA-256: 467fbc890112efdbd971631a5e80955a49bbde865b396baa22d4a0d397d029bb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains embedded links that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded links and the 'invoice/payment lure' heuristic indicate a phishing attempt, likely to trick users into clicking through to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/zowofunoraralutewulumep.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126bca9d6462---78270421051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7738806db6e19f6076bf3d0ed7f38e66/dupetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91623811908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd3005bbe2---gapulerebipadixakukize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drp81skkj70jji17iqpgp6scp7/tifuberijaladusekow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/57030403060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/1317206474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118e6f9ced10---wanupekebokukimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/12982056825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08870e61701a544d3f130384b13a89c7/nokudore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/46514132454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19b76d6f163f0949ce079c19f7aa8726/megokizaxebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e49e9adf27---pikusojesosixakavimijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67iqf5f0igrdm2esih96rhmddk/8142921316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/jabuselaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ski-valloire.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79847159140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbc0q77uecatgqr21e2s2vgaru/69035134888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/kugujenawupojipotawuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ggdc1diila4p7kii6ofv2pn7s/92533555933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d22816846d7---kivenemevegasatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ouroah2ndp8mhbn9b27pba06/jeporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98278494093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcgo.tw/uploadpic/files/19341554646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=compliance+program+audit+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e70c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF23 11268 bytes
SHA-256: b27e00669eff1177381fdacbe2c282232185e8a791a86acb2cd4c3b0457b219c
font_02_sfnt_off00011941.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11941 17468 bytes
SHA-256: bb9d2ec6f9410962ef0b141d7db71d790caf6f19997a0817a62897752fa49eb4