Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dd3052c699414b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 04:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 355e104436f7b2ad374d2e935163ea28 SHA-1: 19cbc8c70e9d68f585e736f83ea9281200eadfb3 SHA-256: 5dd3052c699414b6d60274e5d67876a49b59be558b78fc87f3aaabce51f4bafc
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. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the use of disposable hosting for redirection. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/36717871846.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/4465424497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a679ba6fe1a---9890469814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d14dd792b8---beluvipugebemesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/zegedesifulopetisaluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29d122f476e5db50848f3fec80344b7e/31864322956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8cf24748df---vanapevejijibazite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/50316497683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/resusuwabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8e325294e---jimibunagezovovetukiduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a138cbc650c758ecb4f980c6ae42cab7/ponusufodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvsaigonbinhduong.vn/uploads/files/gikijitesifubovoxipiwufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/2104985571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/40085664794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d66743adc55517eb054b41454b49dbf/pejixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/66385718691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/94444998988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/mevaxunikexalojefiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sehs67.com/clients/e/e0/e078d4d0076166a7bb489ca3b3a583ab/File/dipurabegivimuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076332aaa16c---jokigonifewofapuginilifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe5831da60---82213620895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zisofurividajevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/pemifubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+tell+the+difference+between+a+mouse+and+a+ratPDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/3748354902.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_off0000f5fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E12 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 9b1d9240b923b43aa42f3e3723de5d5dc6ba577886c865d0b80c6b6f5922ccab
font_02_sfnt_off0001279a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1279A 17700 bytes
SHA-256: a5ac67bf803c31769a028c8f56ce968aedcd16ec443b168b69333efb5ddd1df3