Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5c4e864637f82f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-08-04 00:29:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2fcb16ab0a432a52af1aa203eeaac463 SHA-1: 473a9ac3a160d2229fea13b243e3a55cac283fd4 SHA-256: e5c4e864637f82f9dac0bce352ccce5ec904a6e4292046f0a8eadd8cda27f0db
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of numerous links to PDF files on various domains suggests a broad phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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
  • 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 https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13a7b5f4620630ac7548726dd9042d8b/83390652541.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/85975842131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/vukovazulemagedesex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq5q8s2l4a2a3o7mdt67396t4m/galixirizoride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/7604262249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/sebufunonigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ede60a21c9e---likilozowipogovasanudesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/dugawuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/38393154021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/28059866302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eccb1252493b066ab8c3550b0507933/64485591009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b27ecc940---wutafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1d5f9d4e7---59017527416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2147a069fe719d3c75283d5a9e74c6e8/70497303284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62d534fc7e20e9a37d08812d7a124dfb/55871970022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/dopote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zigaxodudelugimadano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/86384467436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/fawefijabamijoluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7df7bc428---78937322013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/govif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c0f6a9de9792760cae5f6eeb5db61a6/58815947188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7aa63d0f5d---44419404126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=driver+laptop+asus+e203mPDF 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_off0001062b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062B 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 426f8b1471a6140d88486b9508fbc64cf6fa37ef6de815422fa09773ded112ac
font_01_sfnt_off00011f80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13792 18408 bytes
SHA-256: 01dc29b33a0cfdb95273a0c75e83d716a594f07ffdd99a8fca84e027c93fde33