Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4112ca30e1a6b54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:36:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 19429d15a7470aca4e67f87850d20c4c SHA-1: b7e8bd77a0d042cf6f6c26b443a5958f262b5090 SHA-256: e4112ca30e1a6b54a9b5bd6154a7be69863e52c266ec9dbff0ab9c877d250e4a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of external links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rebuilding+trust+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://mesahighclassof63.com/clients/79820/File/42549044282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/bazopaxubuwowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608beb71559e3---nuteni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/lujir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37b0aa2b35d02fc8db3f43f3882a2791/jusavuzapifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903babe1a8e---15292063437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/46179598655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/nezazivopufixilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607039712744b---24328419366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h95dchior5lta85lsmir6oudm0/xizurowixupozinunuvige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c554c4bdf696289b80fde4cd2f8db721/xurixador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/pixoxugorunibatiredakozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/dabenebilawibigamoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjdfszwy.com/filespath/files/20210824190157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/tofopopiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/zixozorijiputegurobakanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokisuper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaninoxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/xaxedemorewuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da5efd4b9b---77417503804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e877a59f34---95265165851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abbc8691f50044b940d6447b1460459d/zepume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e76c04ef35df8bdf01ecf7acef980f9c/pajigobenurupuvinu.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_off0000e88f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88F 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 3af2b917985b9dc8b4a7b65c3ee057cfc76baa49698d32d4f6029395c78663de
font_01_sfnt_off0001014c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001195e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1195E 17572 bytes
SHA-256: c5f1381390c57c8ef8f6549b077a2bc236cd7463eeb5c9c8779096904f2a6678