Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3a5e5460b0e217f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5c167db6a6557ca0ca5ea2b6e0ed31b5 SHA-1: 07de47f6ce402b135bc072c2732f3fe01769e999 SHA-256: e3a5e5460b0e217ff4b1c07f5a5496d6ed5bd7f4e651886f6952864e85c257da
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically related to invoices or payments. It contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and ClamAV also detected it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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.
  • 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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=withholding+allowances+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e632944c956---72783160328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c168bac0134---63057639459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/selupiwurekadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/xenijesudezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/73601988974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents/files/54916071242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30723be93a---20895321943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sostrevalli.it/userfiles/files/miwolepudiginuleduwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/wabugivepisuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myexamadvisor.com/fck_uploads/files/nadalebonudosovekugikabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stewartreunion2020.com/clients/2/2a/2a0d9dcdd57715375c9f4393c24df0f2/File/51485863130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32v5b8bddi5qs8r56vvsqkmtkp/92898945580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087951d87c4e---gotopalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/milubesagubimagaxaniteled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25305b775971ac5d73ca8cff28d7530f/88940942855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91004e06c4---10562177722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/273be2d6fb3f7fba67b6dffeda3f2760/90372746018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cf2874a4c---29072297336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f45ba7db99a3f964ab067b8b5ae4f13c/teripevesuguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/nisapovokodoxuxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/47033823162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/zimabunibemesa.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_off0000ee79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE79 10796 bytes
SHA-256: c8cb00207328ed5fde3054b0e636d99834dd1d1029614987d85575a60344729f
font_01_sfnt_off00010702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10702 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 290bec6e74829d86fc23875a580e1830cd2574df6781754afa6d7ab27a7552e4
font_02_sfnt_off00013400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13400 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1