Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e62d4811743163e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 50d3c869a0775b1d55b459f032146329 SHA-1: ccbe112b08a6ed86b2dfbcc135139d1279be7368 SHA-256: 5e62d4811743163ef800ce02a2dccac745aa131cc573b430c3f851fb5b349a9f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0' and flagged by an ML classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/sunitado.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://foxhill101.com/userimages/83074836153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegym.com/uploads/files/202109021004296632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4551c733061dc24cb1c181e3ef4f5bd/bizejowukipetagarus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bedrucken24.de/userfiles/file/88641790574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34439457985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowmangocafe.com/userfiles/file/56147036071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcf0e44723---wupatomukepizopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtglass.pl/upload/file/51237195516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekvatorbl.com/userfiles/file/fidaxakojuvosinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/23981865010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/13223722600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/32079704921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/81701541292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://generalaudit.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/18825432952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolapezzano.it/userfiles/files/94088405518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bdad12457a---komudanived.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388df53bc85---dipasubidiletizaturilosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazifaketunamadude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/nolena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunriseinnjasper.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/viluxegizunolomejebavogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613925a9e44b9---wuwivadixidaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warsztatgdynia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/52710067867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=download+apk+file+of+free+firePDF 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_off0000d4b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B0 18980 bytes
SHA-256: 7898fd362983e41b2a50e14712920c7cf72a9c7d70dc742b2f5ff6b678df9706
font_01_sfnt_off000105bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD6 10404 bytes
SHA-256: d207fb0c4b061406d55f97dcf7d37260459b7cdbaab608bdd4d30c802d457093