Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dfdda86e7ca5a58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 18:07:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b8820489012c348ffa97309baee5c38a SHA-1: 9a73e478ada1ca4cb62634fe842350c05eb23b8f SHA-256: 5dfdda86e7ca5a58261a46eef2ec6f5c63f2ab7cc26f1519aa4ea1a33b908d99
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm hosted on compromised websites, designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious download lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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.
  • 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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140670e5b81f---60591934058.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ankaraeksioglu.com/resimler/files/runekutelewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarvodayasamaj.uk/upload/files/waxajopaxinowakopijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegmsbihta.in/userfiles/file/lemokuzevozefajugepawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/26806464825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4chan.ro/UserFiles/file/8707790067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b1516a0a875c8f959c42cf3572f090e/kijivaviboku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalbafitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/xanavojudibakawezipima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinxinhouseware.com/uploadfile/files/vajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelcenterpuntos.com/campannas/file/ruweguforop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353b6b1637d---lilowufededo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/siwupapolanufusirorepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pre-www.bridge-college.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/lufupiguxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danangsculpture.com/uploads/image/files/7615231419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/gejuluwusodadipepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e95b18e6d2---degedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ecd1d6615---51680772439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmk.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zinukeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161407ebc6c414---26049579933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/levudufivika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubelessons.net/cms_images/file/binisezarojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/watowarubujuxuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/5126554918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marsanz.pl/uploads/fck/file/22689288861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=tutuapp+the+best+android+helper+everPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF05 10760 bytes
SHA-256: a4e1cfa75b585d7b8355a1625864a63daa0028bfc80ab31c7f1f16234aba8687
font_01_sfnt_off0000f773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF773 3024 bytes
SHA-256: 79a05d1276d8b52fffafb7fe260ae54c8da63a7d988fe08d7d56993af4f75c2d
font_02_sfnt_off000103c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00011bd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD7 18912 bytes
SHA-256: af374a4efe4912a0c01cfcf2e19abd71140fdd2739fa279fbf03d2d85d1d635a