Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5efd977c55f0956c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:46:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fd6c6b72cff0e638f9e7b22ef92c2ed1 SHA-1: 9d11ea4f0a1fd8b38dae828f83668ae87115c613 SHA-256: 5efd977c55f0956c73a06351c0ad2547f9cd9dd04094e7b8eae4ed5b2d444a1c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a 'link farm' heuristic and the compromised CMS upload link finding are key indicators of this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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://gyogytornasziget.hu/uploads/files/bejevogadiduga.pdf
    • https://cmfnepal.org/userfiles/files/sosimaxe.pdf
    • http://www.smpnuenen.nl/images/files/64092720575.pdf
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210912024830-10654724087.pdf
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141cbace76d0---94320456318.pdf
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/letunovanajepizevur.pdf
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/33074594440.pdf
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/3814063050.pdf
    • http://brcassociati.com/userfiles/files/widamipoz.pdf
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96646501795.pdf
    • https://alpinashop.rudy-ra.com/files/digowisedifezonulujavolo.pdf
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/21983267978.pdf
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/3736440529.pdf
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/sogewikufevegezaz.pdf
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bc7a1b0ba---mefobuxakodetesovezufofo.pdf
    • http://fruitsad.pl/images/file/zufigigonadorogitiwupi.pdf
    • https://www.stock2morrow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39004549707.pdf
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143d52ea692b---jatapoxeremaruvetefesi.pdf
    • http://medianet2000.net/amm_prod/image_news_popup/file/kikefomerefirafexaralewol.pdf
    • http://studiolauramoschini.it/userfiles/files/suzexemiv.pdf
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60384627616.pdf
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25594592054.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=sniper+3d+assassin+gun+shooter
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d1b2.bin
23100ec9799bc8a5c0ed39759dbfeae3d27c83c993b803c70a0d663631c033d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B2 18604 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102c3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ada.bin
7ca49e7e0e7e7799eeababe44f8d4f0416fa4c0d566e31a18326195181107d8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADA 10972 bytes