Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe4ade75c1a53b4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:13:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5ea18645f21eac5899b1efaae44c7f9f SHA-1: 98fb9a7d9b49c30034780e2d62496183556695f3 SHA-256: fe4ade75c1a53b4d9216618a0dc53eeb69a34971dbb9201645ee0df5142d3526
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting. The presence of 'invoice' and 'callback' lures suggests a phishing or scamming operation designed to trick users into clicking malicious links or engaging with fraudulent support.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/nuwaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yachtandgulet.com/userfiles/file/75251952317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/xexumebetikipaxolovinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/27000485137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161296e9990488---91109274304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7312449130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6785ff6ae566b678f1a31813b89ad80/vojegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akonis.ch/userfiles/files/2487629966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7b6676dbaa87d507f4c8f9e3420e148/17204749990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd848630eda4d27fccb026d2147e9d53/39429575714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14964b0d8e56bcceacf49464d8b78208/zujalituga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/97756128806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/xejusigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/mevejeregakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfk6le7l7ncnvkibp3ru220oee/41463570901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nureku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/bozotaxoxonorewekoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/83340561550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8e7b55d18---82734718257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803be1f02c2---90221815983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/dipogemubep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/63053154693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/07/files/210718233644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/vuzotexibaxesisetij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanvexe.vn/webroot/img/files/neriju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210505084626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=sikar+patrika+newspaper+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_off0000d03f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD03F 20652 bytes
SHA-256: 2c946011fe511c05788224c1cc64d25a9d8cd36bcc1874811d89739a1e254286
font_01_sfnt_off000106f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F9 10576 bytes
SHA-256: ef28205dc08fb9a872cacdd44614204a4dc0edd3cc5fd43430d10aad0a3bb41d
font_02_sfnt_off00011f4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1