Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5335aba0282dffe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:50:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 05e09607b49477d106990346539dcbfd SHA-1: 2f11c48915e2bcd92333a9c85481eb61bfab1457 SHA-256: e5335aba0282dffe0b5ce2a6bbce90cd05b5454563efbf4ba66f3964612793fe
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, consistent with an advance-fee scam lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains elements suggestive of lottery or prize language combined with delivery requirements, reinforcing the scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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 http://altinay-law.com/images/file/vusuwemupu.pdf
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7dr8gckr8qnnmvqvqnqnhob2u/sofefan.pdf
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b2374e1bc---wigakukutudo.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16be05b29e---vevedadobas.pdf
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a514699dbc599b316541f974898628d1/48103795178.pdf
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bee27eeba97b55c45f2b240144b4c7d3/32845492609.pdf
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/75464235959.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e781d69493---10686304033.pdf
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e597a65229d3b4f289d0705f8366c1c/55433407499.pdf
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9a9662757---gizob.pdf
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/larojixezadogedefoxi.pdf
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gvf58hjhkadsrb06q5lmatd8p/xugawaguraderamaninolitej.pdf
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/kureku.pdf
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/5978776522.pdf
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91894f025d2f9b40d64d7d9a4bca8aad/galupixolul.pdf
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents//files/gederoxe.pdf
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86f2cd23c2f8b358b8e90fbb86401ae5/52129647446.pdf
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8552801518ba6f2d1f864dd0f5ad7ea/safenevixolo.pdf
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/rodul.pdf
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607289b540490---8245940295.pdf
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/89262925619.pdf
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/gopejezorowesewujex.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+transit+code+for+direct+deposit
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7f8.bin
430f440a22e79645441ab2629f30390cb2494e5fd21414fb6a9160a9f2711d43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F8 16848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011406.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11406 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c1d.bin
270e2d64c9840f2a5be6e916c299e1179da6114bd4e6effcc634c48b3766be72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C1D 10664 bytes