Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0ddfddb831e0605…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-14 18:05:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 0035ac3d1f6e20b1f7ac074a4b2f6d22 SHA-1: 01a461b94411d6bf80017fdce5321200fefc7473 SHA-256: e0ddfddb831e06058060ff607778b5a4c520601f65814a47907130234aa21e0d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to deceive users, likely through a fake invoice or payment scam, and lead them to download a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc19e1b9aaf---31851558532.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/46196867894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/99348600776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/033c2962273d3918f79f79390981bdce/mikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6dff59dec---21539784516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseconcert.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6749958073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/71441415945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/93348547438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bruisedreedfoundation.org/clients/4/4d/4d9d7eec3bf3a09fa0457ace138f6a4e/File/90623393717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085245864d9f---podazelukeliwisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3030ac957---666099002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/redabipogubizagujokosas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/betuxijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/pobemiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/88746287226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210607_092612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86819f0188---24805297401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100e20d8a3ac---43366565463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/15177963117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb217cb02f3a92ca5f5686b25ce62a12/33152935295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/dagogeriju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/32893975214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadamasristorante.it/file/xininitinidegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/67446014531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fairtradeportal.pl/userfiles/file/11415111601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=shinee+from+now+on+concert+eng+subPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE0E 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 304356c692061c6520b14a7f29022aa7a8e65516ccd9f3889c19ca1952a59cc9
font_02_sfnt_off000106d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D5 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd213f23fb2c3c4c3c48d0cdeb05344b2d5dc5233fd8e24f9ec46472bcd769e
font_03_sfnt_off00013655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13655 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 325d940879c5d539326ae3fe73c54e87367dd806ed01c5b370ecb5828d4876a8