Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5d06e7d8c8ff5c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

154.2 KB Created: 2021-07-27 10:30:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ca0f9c6760143e5ba8f63673e6c19505 SHA-1: 1d44e10f3ecccc78c5c0979daf9229ab669ac7e9 SHA-256: d5d06e7d8c8ff5c574497bf53f4a86531678b5c007484707a04958487a5f78a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Multiple heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various URLs hosted on compromised or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it's designed to exploit users by redirecting them to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/nafupugoro.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6977950748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb8ef4f1a9b3b18389612b8f50179d36/fijesusebamisabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip4bnaa3r1oa71m0v92epu9912/38528965316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87dd6246db---wusivogijeluvorugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878191ad303---nilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085159f2d736---80451027268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/jedopereborawepagikukowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833240c7656---20579977625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/092fac95bd4832011ba8f713929cef45/10935100958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ccd91dc88---42902994946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210718/file/16265706424782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/446cd130a6514618c507e440a7d25e6f/31293211755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u03bn8v8o90tgpne948t1ufbpq/rixidesudewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f908dc7bfde---303946273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/15067224967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f75875a59d---lizaxivixenesudidodizakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/dejilemesopoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdale66ersreunion.com/clients/c/c6/c679c52642bc64dd8629b98fb95ccc77/File/pixewubidarodemilosebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvksvmfcfilclqa6lgfl47ccbk/26803017569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a68ad827864a25da902e664b8f7fb14/47029765219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/muxekojapewefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/xarogumexodixesusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=admission+form+format+for+coaching+classes+in+ms+wordPDF 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_off0001e377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E377 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 06f1d5f5a9083a80364da0885936c8ddb2848b41a67694407b5e75bff462a068
font_01_sfnt_off0001faba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FABA 17360 bytes
SHA-256: d52ca1151cf9fe5351907f703990a2bea533c6dbaba14ab9ddaeb6956c0062d6
font_02_sfnt_off00022894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22894 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000240ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x240AB 10988 bytes
SHA-256: c8475e03dbe87e0d21dfd40b759fdcb99fec5b7348212235feac071cbdfae6c8