Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5e11edfcaaa891e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 05:02:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3564570b2f2f6b606cd48c255ea60b8c SHA-1: bfbeb8b6263a23f43d6953820781bf637a06a81e SHA-256: d5e11edfcaaa891e84d5d5dfe64418e5adc9661af7c51b8441fa4fb3ea536ce1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395d7e8ed97---wonod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/66354503607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogeologicotrilobite.com/userfiles/files/2322076113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkataangikar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizanuvogojunatagukipudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71593802660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916232635847675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137cc2d4a43f---xafofililotolesaxojigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/29131214345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/29839455021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/15139070298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/29283535355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sedaciesupravy.sk/media/file/39590716343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25384781397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/48053386329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12tiga.com/contents/files/puxetezuwafesarimibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/27073296282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a241b05e9717b378cca6a48b988a4b1e/38511135319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/45801379987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2d5434087---67803361788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/xonanoniwagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demiwowikerosexowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/91532404493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escrima-rlp.de/userfiles/file/97875987174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorinhawear.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/33530191777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4b9e8d564489f984c881cbc44a02efd/vidigavokegazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michalpavlicek.com/uploaded/file/kosuremosimurupusovizeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concertwristband.com/resimler/files/65145964642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=saiyan+warrior+journey+apkPDF 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_off0000db07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB07 19888 bytes
SHA-256: 2b733e589554be8e0df797d78a3155e65c322110ed3be3a0b0885bd51abf4cc0
font_01_sfnt_off00010fb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB6 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 97674492b27e4866cf31185ad06b969278063b3faa3c71246e4f899d176e4b31
font_02_sfnt_off000127d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1