Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dd8d91c686d222b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:06:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 13009067905617bc33efd4068392a132 SHA-1: 9ede5867c8129ae603b2391529b57934ae7ca648 SHA-256: 5dd8d91c686d222b1e0b3446c8f2028728f9232987523ba2bb59bc708e1ea6af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish for information. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. The embedded URLs are part of a tactic to direct users to malicious 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://kedehg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6391060110.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/fotivaxovome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/21106004480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/fimazegapusana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/penotowevositodilororan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-aqua.fr/ressource/site-image/files/92484664688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c7ca6868e0---22935807340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/77273171878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/5692636023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/vuluvuzafuwozibeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/28566418456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/mokoxipijigivizefewik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denimder.org/resimler/files/73476315301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/xaxuragisiluwebajate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/52645334532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26a3bba7ccf6e9729179036df9128a7f/gufakidapab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/guvilimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/lusexedurawawozebenidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gbci3kj8889dakk9nqmbmsu8p/25943012199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c819f3b25deb47c869e1cc28228bd1e/lidajano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnartourism.com/uploads/file/dikinubiviferotaxuzobule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mglr5s8cgetkh2esf4u7kru2ur/rotozerakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f87e38e972---66597117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efb864be77---92795881381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=download+android+tv+remote+controlPDF 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_off0000d713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD713 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 4ec8b9756b6b0f9cc74c4cb3d6fdee6ef661ac0109d61b7cf8114b8aabaae637
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10717 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 19c3dc32f093d9cab13dcf14578f9f671f30cd7e0269a8d5a17c92af99bc6225