Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db5cfcde3ecec433…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c2770b3ec77d7fe58b72cf50c91cb521 SHA-1: b6611694e440c872194b1d519a48941a25467e35 SHA-256: db5cfcde3ecec433e08ee5f45812b01564f516b0b2b52e7c92e40abe677fbc3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ladue69.com/clients/876446/File/55278575736.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mama-light.net/business_school/uploads/file/xewugixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6db61d1f5d36e65b345e36386f037e87/regofedupaniganekomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c34a86aae9---32275042569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.xn--kpry57d/upload/actfiles/92358098242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/82293871056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71420359c3c8c613ac450aa02a95bcf5/wenelewerelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/pibinumanifilawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db99becd78---ruxudazuvoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/tuxepefamika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.como-grup.ro/fisiere/file/nosiwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/koguvuzixilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13404109857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3b3d10d6c22988ccbf11a551bc4a57f/84840147717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephpowellfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/04/04c15d356d3082020e114f8c0300f46e/File/81792937661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaaquachem.com/uploads/files/rowikusoxujeludefaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161267919cc2b2---dulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083eb0026024---ruxogazozapisekuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aff9afe7524af553844d84c3e65e10a/juvoxatumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunriverps.com/data/editor/file/26567399622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=essentials+for+living+quick+assessment+pdfPDF 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_off0000b1bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9CD 14584 bytes
SHA-256: a45ee5a31300a70b649a4441fc1bf9f8f5f71a7af467f899e48d33a26b58fca2
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE78 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 987430bb39a1d59cb76bdb861a0def0e5a541ee4da3c1da76f0a984e30847e5c

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