Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e466964084ebdb31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:16:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dadf9fabb5a4ba247250e753be5c316c SHA-1: 46ac76cca6a2666d3166614d924da17b82d53e2e SHA-256: e466964084ebdb31d1b92f1c640ae2afdde2760e96dd52758817f21c333e1c43
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to direct users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://tckontrola.hr/files/55766789881.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xageunion.com/userfiles/file/40226183222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/63665491634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613012b25c04b---2454069420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613771ad07494---zidedali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hong-tour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_E47FCD37E18AFE9C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210914175019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f9d2c5398---vizapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rguin6jdof797pkvibfrcjqnem/68629705753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109141109471923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/ruguseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/5683588496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/90865373398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/ruxatapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolaviano.it/userfiles/files/64169101687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/sifabaxulilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givetutugano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13040940184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613730ab00333---fetexolinumelenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/87214661864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d6bf6ccb0---jodapapenapotejideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/68887145079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f15f3c80e35fad27ef05820ee74d01e/lujigudagexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitarofindiamd.com/userfiles/file/62440376656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33401374764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+reading+book+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000cc10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE422 17132 bytes
SHA-256: d87293fec9631bbc09a5d93d551a0e9e3ebf970d43c41f5ea9a94cd57619e2ce
font_02_sfnt_off00010f8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8E 10856 bytes
SHA-256: a1e768723420452767a559fb09964ed83f364283c062313a23e473b039dba794