Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4d1c54fdd9c74fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:21:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 523f5a25d4d612c49095e0f9e4c732c5 SHA-1: a78feb1d79a19f179f18c0c625653c81cc82b119 SHA-256: e4d1c54fdd9c74fa02a944a8f3c5db69e8e7c64f241af51bce043a7a823e2eea
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is identified as a phishing lure, likely using an image-based approach to trick users into clicking embedded links. The heuristics indicate a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or harvest credentials. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the PDF structure strongly suggest a phishing attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121b12b67a48---92410147873.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/85844519857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612aae7284d89---lomizaxazugadedugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d93ca7b37f3---36121276394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6eff9f4061---46439276167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/67355158061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gjrcnmv7rtrqvcpugaa6jua62/39775542433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/nelepino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/jidurimuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/kudabovume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanasay.com/cache/fck_files/file/woxoniza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/39311822053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistralizmiryonetim.com/uploads/file/65033022812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laweasy.kr/userfiles/file/16077766902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/21643255808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/zujapenovigisixus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/beligise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fminterativa.net/cms/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48481894214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3c29f6c325e2b9214f8c852ebafd3e1/44052801208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/97003568795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/59681224915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d11bc7b74---davetoxukunagel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dd386eeaf0b2bae3080ddf606fcca87/jikafufopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d61eff4a955a3cf8d40699c03d81bc6c/xamoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/57911581749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=as+bases+quimicas+da+vida+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_off0000b293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB293 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 61cfc902d1fdc48e097fec688939e5f6fd80253ab32ecf09b601e1c2bb2af03c
font_01_sfnt_off0000caee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAEE 14092 bytes
SHA-256: 715e0375808e142768b05d7af93c3b3bb896f29204e74f284da004d7ce3a5daa
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1