Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dda943bc94472ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 18:49:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 11db567064dd7221983b2561869df883 SHA-1: 2370be2ce7d576ff9ab56ef927621e8187b8bc3a SHA-256: 5dda943bc94472ea8fc4702fd5f6e5b353b272724c9daad637fa8acfb2d2d141
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, with one URL specifically hosted on a compromised WordPress upload directory. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially a phishing page or a payload download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://linker-apps.com/files/37625729330.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sozopolihills.com/userfiles/file/1238885751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/95286544647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53218635523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202109080437115791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/raruwumilaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theseadiaries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fewoluxexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/55465382262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/68828836292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9e3ae4dcd---fotonirivukarado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nirifaginisidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodavidepini.it/userfiles/files/76900396902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://breedlife.com/upload/files/diwamukuxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/52961745303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/8624175626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/89600688896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/12990860872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f9563644f5d89d917a6a3d8d393c584/8148691292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56cb2b3e913b5c75b1153d0df8de068b/fisupogovetubomafedakutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nolebudabajabeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hizirferforje.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/images/file/98875831103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kooijobs.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16761408326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=live+wallpaper+for+desktop+windows+7PDF 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_off0000d481.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD481 18388 bytes
SHA-256: b4ae2108c6637f47132cb2318840ec77c3891ea4c18c3edcc1490bf596237a28
font_01_sfnt_off00010502.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10502 10740 bytes
SHA-256: ee42eb798495ee0bf0a72f1890e9ce74d58b9f83d97442825d6574817edf74fa
font_02_sfnt_off00011df2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1