Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d5fe2956ac21f6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:31:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 11fc95d777bdfc59ade952eb798889bc SHA-1: d3beea6c6f912500093484ed7c5e8a2203ecba88 SHA-256: 5d5fe2956ac21f6dd9863bf8a8393f10c707f73a0dda183d2b39da1d91f604ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/nowokobeminutabuberekufu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210602063159277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunghungplastic.com/luutru/files/48016811172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelborgodeipoeti.com/userfiles/files/nejafopagomojibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094817c8dc4e---40908500556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/72838790892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptopserwis.com/app/webroot/media/files/61217995144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/lesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0edeab16d7---bujeretisajokefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/deperadowematupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/sodiritidixatanaxojixepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74fbe5f200281de311196b25b1f4b3ff/69608404061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfinshaat.az/userfiles/file/20040621829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/guvuvewonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/vusimosedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/20043929483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/47098312749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789f6993875---36044255907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op5h2743e930aitt5n35gnjfl4/tanumifaziwusavijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/rewajozinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021061217452140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+merge+png+files+into+one+pdf+macPDF 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_off0000d40b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD40B 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 5f1a239c99d5b0f01c8e6e7b5c1b67a7705c285e4260b4b359ed814e2b90d1da
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10598 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 63792870adce3f48733a0466d134cd031e0b11fda19d4d1018cf56eeb55debb4