Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e467ed443cdf0380…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-06 08:08:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 373b81c282849b636ed4aa1d5649e322 SHA-1: 38a89271fd9d1ab983fe8bdb208e3851b803c76c SHA-256: e467ed443cdf0380819ddf96df6cc9cbff4a40793b2de399c7d6c40303dd392b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to download further malicious payloads or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608707cd2c61f---52031304694.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f579ff7154c---23413995600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04de221758dde29e9827629d0662bcbc/wugaxejazalomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778ef081d18---wawonufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bn427vg7375nt5ftraa6n7fje6/97484567255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55893323712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/82737454151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a3bd9de33---30620848479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momexonejisovezerepaxebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a060eae7f2f---nezigiwafaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slaterlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6770e440d596e78d8012f8794e0f73dc/fevoxapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/nivevudolugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/gidopulesimegenopaluzopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/66619827685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/59423351682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nu6c6i4vjeiil2ddoik75ucnh6/75417782504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f3fdbb92f---devomaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd1fc47af86887cac3b1f8c7792d4c25/58849953408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fa353b53f---nifivovanuvevidabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e92742e20---63203596115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2657dcd45b---84131280340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2c4a9c327---37606782816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=myanmar+journal+download+freePDF 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_off0000d522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD522 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 24d55736c2706faec763c9c8b16bcba26f6f12336b99ed97be1eeb306b5711df
font_01_sfnt_off000100e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E8 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 5f583f6b36e12fdb18eb681a5ff9d03cf4a678dfd62e653230197e6be83b846a
font_02_sfnt_off0001191b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1191B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1