Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e448df0e88e04df3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-11 11:17:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cd1316c0ac7abbbc17922766dd194376 SHA-1: 17445deb94db9445ecbe27e9b57f2d5135f0f86e SHA-256: e448df0e88e04df36d2dea5bc150cdbdd065526d05a679a447323e47138ac0df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' reinforces the malicious intent of directing users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=notion+de+fonction+3%C3%A8me+exercices+brevet PDF link annotation
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/vafanovajuxujupepugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/85690409946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/lepodedujilulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.biz/userfiles/files/41737997619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e84c9423b7a2a1c5bc84032af9fc873/69035719228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/83391242859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ffcb2377f6---25806073480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608301393b833---58855983203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c964e9d8229---lorilufolobidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e19b9b644---66132718417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf5db9ab3d0---woxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/wizomugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/suzex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fharfdmenj9j8r876v52v020k7/12491499643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/86450995346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100fd1f9a6ef---41269422993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/48945577801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607128b6a4241---23247032246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/gifosexamafival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfd4ae797c---zudokawazowezupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao6qc261h5c0at642vherrc8f5/34604953072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210710115458580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08fe38266367fe9610e5766d2190660b/73390060651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qcajuguasdq57ihgobmo2fkdo/32287118132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mueblesdepladur.es/1/userfiles/file/66739142061.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_off0000da42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA42 11040 bytes
SHA-256: abd1bb848e83dc630c3e637f6b8a38f1b6a2f383e0149ae3d2560615155906d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010bd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD5 17368 bytes
SHA-256: e8050b32752c042c2a409d27951bba068c4ec5c80416ff82f8a2a0b30bd5a5b8