Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1047d227ca4cebc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 02:29:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: acb91fecf193522e70c522e94f99f87a SHA-1: 834428adbe7334378d8a55215e72799862d134d9 SHA-256: e1047d227ca4cebc97e7883d2c07f45315b6955c213b6503d38973ae95080ac8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+table+to+text+in+word+365 PDF link annotation
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dd837180f---vojanibamisezije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cf8497c0a---64725572976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yalcinplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/renebelolabiluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7821a4bf6d---tivanopudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd956f092b---redapazifogurozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb41641cb8---vikokijikemudegifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/67949091467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/zegotozena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b70bd288a9---71990507261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/jibup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5cc6144dd---piwudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e570e7ce20a6a754ad176f062d5a86a2/masivomijuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c511120f0---4336612706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizungen.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/35346065794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f637af82d---dezesezovavotomawazilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919b424e836---70588304169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a4956fb2625dd797e3c4c9cffe8f5fd/27872469136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dptech.vn/uploads/files/mologuwomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e9tfk4jlstu12npg81gvd1fld/wotawuvupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9291847a7263e050cc839a6bbb151a0d/78492124663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/mosujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85749510152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b31a3bd5cf5---xuridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886221e65ae---muponatomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/nudefodatosozegatadamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f747ae2cb4---fataredorube.pdfIn 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://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_off0000cc23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE435 16232 bytes
SHA-256: f8ee3ab24f2d638b0dec780424b2b35085b5ab16c4ecd88b7a2d2db7905afe00
font_02_sfnt_off00010e4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E4F 10972 bytes
SHA-256: b0077a50649498c340c1123f04bfd0235b1784682e6c9fc0d99d9f1b74c09040