Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cd2ffbed09e4ebb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0dbfda6ae48b72cea140cf7e853c284d SHA-1: 104e3a1d2d26937d570e7653f60c2c06becbf188 SHA-256: 5cd2ffbed09e4ebb7684537314712a5828ff490ad054d07bb78bf31a2e895fc3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. No document body text was extracted, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/riwevewuduxuzomafekad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2o66pil7ccr0e1i3h54j21966/sexibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aeaa37aa1d---23660716009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/72703930091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e434a297a14f7e88de1837faebca20a1/sujuvexegure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e606c116a0---43919107526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7fbb69a05339734ca22ad0fa4d5e51/46144798483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088043066f9a---vevedowajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/pewexalupafawimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f506d2368b04e54b3e6a39222d6bfab/lafemenawadenifinenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/118f3a0960ee3551a18bd76684ae5fa0/pijuvusoxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/34626611503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b142d61cb---40176671736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequeanglaise.org/upload/files/rowadozas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vqsbfiqcmbvdgb3fb1rftpvbs/tusewisebijetapisupezawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e893417bf---9171739433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/10993434678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulsamemorialclassof71.com/clients/84987/File/vekewitigosiwenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/95220352494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/zonewejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/24881908499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=calculating+right+angle+trianglePDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afbaa519f2a57980320b2cbdd62c3897/85545157561.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_off0000e31f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE31F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB36 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 319e79c07481b48a2bb3a6b29392e84fa5f36ca3f313b822800b9e37c412f9c9
font_02_sfnt_off00011283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11283 18196 bytes
SHA-256: adc2abc71063740d229ee667176205d0d481a96144a4b639f01786c2c5c0fbbc