Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed4a556cf264dd2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:33:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0e2ae163bfb0b9914a2f6dd5d7246710 SHA-1: a6c65b4ee99e04ee3e6cb69b8d2ebef01a1416bd SHA-256: ed4a556cf264dd2aae551a9e945122f26e41eb7115b180937fd9d112e154f125
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'invoice' and 'payment' related heuristics indicates a phishing lure, likely attempting to trick users into visiting these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/96058084172.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121709f5219f---gevumupozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/xoronevanakagopiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/89597209332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5d1a117963a48cf779b526c0d990cde/jiboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/94108027045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84433e767526546198ac901ec32c4cad/fadozatajemamekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10170fa177d7fb5e27e1eb88b3ef8344/pakifuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d10f1d4ce6eaf8b2552d19de15cf5d4/2807908600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcc1080e58d---netemizajaromu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc499ac7b2d4f1550a478fa9ab3e9b56/deranikigomavabubofoxano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210710_145154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b49356095---57797466390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/tukaguzonijezojozaxoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/gedutafofowakutepukazedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117bd6012cf6---kosutanesixarunogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89017524028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/72359107288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/12288873935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885d0a9270b---dulokelodumiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d561b12dfaff1e6de76e6bfd0f1806a/mawiriraruwomizogati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/12243485318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pay+city+of+lawton+water+billPDF 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_off0000df9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9F 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 3aff8a410c8a9e7b5776f280c40223315283c16483c26529deddfe5f043a829c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD0 17716 bytes
SHA-256: 8e22c8e20abd59f7169a3c81a7550c1a25c80102377e680869ee3c7da7067357