Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5940784c5acf03c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 13c914b38458562da9a0382a48b66c12 SHA-1: 534cbbfab97eddd8dbacc5760697a55a515475cd SHA-256: 5940784c5acf03c8cd94cb0043e9b5228ded2476f95eb9fb2b989beb502a494f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, several of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a visual download button further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

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
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pes+android+blogspot PDF link annotation
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/famudozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/dadenajunumudufifuxuzodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://launensia.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98407371369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/92554468194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/lezolakenunigavuzuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnmpaint.com/sdcc/images/file/35356788116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416756ba752---12408847447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ain.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2741689829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c9f85d30dd---58842554304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/81504164959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etimes.mn/uploads/files/nurutorepipulugazodeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/41222764956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatangsongvan.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/vufiguwutomojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tjpapigroup3.com/contents/files/79583690512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bapitikiwabujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/7537835307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armature.ir/cache/fck_files/file/bunewowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6cb0e0157---49888482389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-tableware.com/uploads/files/202109070810268320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/niwulizuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindustanadvancedsolution.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/woxorige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-13/20210913173713314219.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_off0000dadc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADC 19736 bytes
SHA-256: d51d931c956c92dacbf96a065375bdb0548ee3bd2aad51605e6f57ac7911201f
font_01_sfnt_off00010f8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8E 10708 bytes
SHA-256: a8d370b408436e4523dffab315cb2b0ce386f132ed5dc80b54df05feaea742c1
font_02_sfnt_off000127cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1