Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5daeca7741da2f3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-19 05:14:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7d06fe5ab1f21c2df7ee750c6e269ebb SHA-1: 2a31e67d1eddff0308190c7c4aca19052f42d446 SHA-256: 5daeca7741da2f3ba068e650ed805d0820751444bbe38add9db7e2188b04f94a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=%C3%A7anak+okey+plus+hilesi PDF link annotation
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhijo3d2imediko1r9ds1thbtv/13293625378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henskeschildersbedrijf.nl/upload/44798515607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b1a539894---lafarigotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acbd0e5c88---gafopuxususupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607377a46afb9---vokera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5d619f114---lolosigipufukegoloserafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/97747690685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davis-wilford.com/clients/5/5d/5d1655677b271656441dfc21bb295863/File/53071454559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzwgjx.com/d/files/76224442248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8b88cb1ec---1850809241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/79614447116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d16fea2a7862583d5174b387ed3d01d/29581685070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee718fcb748---20688217933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cana.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/63667822581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a81211c02f592c55d6f7d2011a1eb8d7/vukinuletimezovolevexofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/jadijef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motoquadro.de/userfiles/file/wizuxinebujalolowanoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/ladadigowefefawokewujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14274120497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adb55cf4ee4e5847ecaf96779c7118b4/zisinozufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/88693846810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94269b44ef4919dcb822e5c34915f96e/72673861754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723313916c3---42406326216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/noxixedi.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_off0000e7e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E3 10564 bytes
SHA-256: d57d7dcad49a9c8cce9da1eff15dd6d1f5e09073c5e44a1e77a1876b627364e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE3 18132 bytes
SHA-256: dfcf07bc313b7121322b6707e112f9ed2948ae8219411a6f5a2a492094c3ce1e
font_02_sfnt_off00012bd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1