Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bd4d7f8706c46fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:43:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2a57854f16c95aba2a4412746ed9c2fb SHA-1: 5c3333041c7469eacf12aedbe1512e61494a4866 SHA-256: 5bd4d7f8706c46fe1a1be373a3f1c36560dd8ab14b0f1618d839988d5e322850
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3+musketeers+roblox+id+code PDF link annotation
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c459578e5163d7a415aea0ea299c64f7/bopak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajeah-intl.org/fck_image/file/74656251135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwovuwerelifuvofeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsinteriordesigner.com/userfiles/files/benami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/jopuwekir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chouchoudauphongongtay.com/upload/ck/files/paliviwibawivanozokuzumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.omt.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamovedakulepimefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99495047126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mivqm02igb51um1ftntbrak26/vojasiwujazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/depozap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hlj-vibration.com/uploads/image/20210913/files/20210913135100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/fukav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanhbon.vn/media/ftp/file/kumubedamorixaxititofulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77482429139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/39356168739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52942924135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serpavenger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37501279535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/userfiles/file/54684989387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometgroupinternational.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jikozugupukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonlawhouse.in/userfiles/file/37291772680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gjrkv1h5njo2khkkephqba27ha/30730235060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exms.fr/sites/default/files/file/69554467069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuzexugidibarezozevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/zakinavozewubotipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/suvufaxila.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_off0000f79d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79D 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 97149f2471ee6383996ed0cd867bafc10ae72994ae46c4d0bb9a6f7ec05f8a24
font_01_sfnt_off00011073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11073 18772 bytes
SHA-256: d52bfd1b117022c63b180583543e9a8994dc7aeb1686122bfeeead2c9518cb65
font_02_sfnt_off000141e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1