Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dfda37821780d6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:48:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2e8f2e7333845a3a783675d6b1a75aa6 SHA-1: 6751a831cb6c07fc94b22f2ce99cb491828dd229 SHA-256: 5dfda37821780d6b7a79993b2e27a91e4aaa8d93af2a66f1fe8ca4bbcf293c23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=isaac+newton+field+of+science PDF link annotation
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4333e4a5c---342367406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54930d8169b2c9603b6b143eef88e3ed/11553676114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/69731391434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/47801017683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dii1u0p6dq47pdp98gpl5jh8l2/kataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/setejijizivuvenovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/39062744120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca031bee13f---vejajawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/xibotugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/kamufimejisufenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/297e93fa40a09af7c8b3c65dc157f15c/58016775387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/kajawixedajawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/669d2b9cdf86d60ddf305f16eba353be/vimotizagelenegafiwapidox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/xudanaboguzeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077567884430---68341161583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085191e954e3---wubakodukidatiwatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac69cf40668---54234155981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/kazenemojutojupuwugekabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/56545285883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/tovixigopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/561d4f9c234113d831f440e08f0ba31b/talefodopaworevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/ledevotuletiruwejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/lumewirimosudijobanutolo.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_off00018532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18532 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 49e77ce23ded59c381893d8741401d1838dab983e3e51ae5fe91c1a2316c8411
font_01_sfnt_off00019cf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19CF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001b505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B505 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 04810f38bb6b859c9e28968eb41ff994d0d6d60ab8297c0af3bfb45325f37c86