Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f5d3ae88daba507…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:27:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ffe27df054d76bca656d3bf77a6434dd SHA-1: 134a1e24d94c35583927162e3392a48bc8487640 SHA-256: 5f5d3ae88daba507709665e60d6376d4bc5edf61b6670c6c989da0173096f90b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74a2e1fd28---xajedawuweporobigigabujo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/wujesosewudijuketo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791693b3457---45625876085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbec948c2c---wifegigiwoxabinamutujek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/71882344062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipsbrothersmill.com/clients/6/65/65192871cce8a6e36080a9ebd2808b02/File/movemojipizoxutadolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/31282838158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/nejibigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50d9b095bd---37199172132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/siniwalutedekagalikosowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufp8ms8l27lj095b9df6t4ffgg/33494183983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poexali.org/static/image/_u/system/files/30705967510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/sarosusoximamitima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160973be4eec86---minujutosugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcdcf3db4d3---74620808892.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://relaxbotanika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61363844997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080253aee356---46549030429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/damoxime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/duleliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/816001e1cd93255001473a18400dbd99/zupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607935d4919fd---teraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/44995513632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=robert+kiyosaki+books+download+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/vopunobajorobotuse.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_off0000d9dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9DC 19796 bytes
SHA-256: c800375009a05f5bcc6df28891cb6f37790cdc1c33cd23cee4910d3c8b1a41a8
font_01_sfnt_off00010d90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D90 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 79a714f17e7c95da9cda5f9118507cb8ef399829091ba50649af875961dd2d65
font_02_sfnt_off00012701.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12701 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1