Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e43d65bd97704f08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 17:21:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5f2ce9493f6fe18aa48cc0f91cff376b SHA-1: d1fac3bdf70c499ebed351d30e99f34e5509dcdd SHA-256: e43d65bd97704f083ede98762cd3a0259a6895e9a5430129bac988ce1d70373e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not provide specific content, reinforcing the interpretation of a lure document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6676

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/66301560946.pdf In PDF document text
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    • http://lasantitosrestaurant.com/userfiles/file/33752360618.pdfIn PDF document text
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    • http://share-world.tw/userfiles/file/nevazek.pdfIn PDF document text
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    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144267813f12---1886750751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+disable+adblock+on+chrome+mobilePDF link annotation