Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d3cbfef7ceedb5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:23:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c13febc2d0e0a3f8bf35752bf9cf60f2 SHA-1: 74bb2644eb94a8a5b5f42635d6a7b0b7eda9d914 SHA-256: 5d3cbfef7ceedb5a71ee30a269ea8e566a4cd59587baa8a7c24cbdabc4560a77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to distribute further malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final malicious destination through a series of redirects and compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qj9snsdo1900ne2dnsj36933a4/sijojiduwaviwasisoserode.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/xopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/5771763053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f692d1e78---30388049269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/395f3797f2694d57b2f4c841b3aaa373/kuvexubuxojukikovega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs1966maui.com/clients/64750/File/91886489345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078763b73353---gibukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/sixunexememode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607220d50531c---47679211865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1579b4dab0e0bd2baa027211aae83b6f/69707718551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentbucharest.net/images/userfiles/bifiwimupuvusisulabemubin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleni.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32275309497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it3u0v0e6msvt91qnpg2375oj2/zilesiraviwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2d78aee035b6a2f4c7cd9f16d0ca2c/livedopevane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/37629035531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/fawosexagulelexilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de21h0gb2ee5rngilu7in0sr3/dijotofazosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607606d062139---47236965670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/kawokosexijitax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607455cbbe71f---86518174213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10f339ba46---buwunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949d204ffd5---wogazerojekejetosikutoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0eb1e249e5a39d9ae42fa4199207a06/81199286130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=toy+story+3+game+downloadPDF 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_off0000fdc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC6 17568 bytes
SHA-256: dfa68e911a3ee93e501d19b1446be3c09bf9844ff5aa6461c1b7b9ef173335c1
font_01_sfnt_off00012c21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C21 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 12f22669c2f14fa751c52d082e0e2e914db29d0ee754b19c312fe48578a79b72
font_02_sfnt_off00014516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14516 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1