Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d55dea7ae0f01bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 08:51:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ca8eebcb4c6e25a3f8545c7b6d710fce SHA-1: b7026aa9098b8e02b5eaa6d20ae15c43e9782659 SHA-256: 5d55dea7ae0f01bb396cced0c2c3746f87524b8636dcec2f6cead8249fa69905
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggest a deliberate attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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 https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/5934934598.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://toszegisuli.hu/userfiles/file/mamodigepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://come2menorca.com/images/file/16414364900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotypsy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanadawaveguzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/70546781160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6fa31e5fd---tixeragazinetena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/63184654956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a7d3674ff26bc68bbee6e03118aee3e/tesesori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/gupuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85652292016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xszhuhai.com/uploadfiles/files/83388728787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613638a2cef39---75714815251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/28722726855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcicz.org/userfiles/file/84085457310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coherence.cz/userfiles/file/57017980948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vhcvietnam.vn/ckeditor/images/files/kuzegewisewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a7c3f2460---83572320028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuysuujk.handysociality.com/upload/files/75130825979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.whoamiandwhyamihere.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fatizonuxazewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/rokamizejejejotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ee86c078a---gufeteselopepozusetatodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/losapabupodugubame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idealist.ro/userfiles/file/vesulogavukubotajuwikagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.coverseg.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/xolinasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=life+on+top+full+episodes+online+freePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d14d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD14D 10384 bytes
SHA-256: e480df37233fa4510eddfaaf72eaac02174544fe1ee4c713eb20bb55396b2781
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F1 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 5ec503010d35d9e57a3fb651e153ca8b722fbf18907664fd136eecf4f5bad4c1
font_03_sfnt_off00012ddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DDB 2132 bytes
SHA-256: 8ad1629d78958631526aea0a74d0b163a5252944052d54f78beed5240939c1a1