Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dd5f07ce35cdff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-18 00:59:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e3c2c571a232aedb4d33267dc24f2e8e SHA-1: d5135ac5c671c9adb49538cc5a30dd9b067fac36 SHA-256: 2dd5f07ce35cdff9595f7b0be471b87d159a96ff8cb1b722f848a16b673780f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that often embed JavaScript to facilitate redirection or exploit delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=t+mobile+home+internet+upload+speed PDF link annotation
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/47063683255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/06/file/74337614452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998033995f2---7706950140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/mafofulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/60104385162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/72618289851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f85b4ed58c---dogejobebonupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluidearthconcrete.com/userfiles/file/88453313731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/85297482621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06b1e05a956e03faef9e9b40c0ab84c0/4295009479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamodivonugosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gizmakina.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/fojogideselomanoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3e9cc7c57---83417776530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///42713799901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1aced0bfe---29664371304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhodnoceni-penez.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/46968312037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/67038908985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/nevofusafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j576fcv31ot16d8vhaag7mj3h0/48910115565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f38dafca7de31c9468408042d2bad674/pajowizego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000effe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFE 16756 bytes
SHA-256: d899fed0f9b8888963c5e8104fc8a9f643c6bf80b89eca7bf0d7d1bcbadef9c5
font_01_sfnt_off00011bd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD8 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 812d3af1f5768be30f5cda3ff5f038f9446038320b282ae025352fdf3ffed205
font_02_sfnt_off0001346f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1346F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1