Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00c5c6a847ec234e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-10-08 00:54:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6b7c795f0d1106df23d88484001db9d1 SHA-1: 030701e8e0bd45b6d1e5abff0ed37f256e23641d SHA-256: 00c5c6a847ec234e9bb0b72d98256a5254ce64829e5416cf4d7090605089eac7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://vizesblokk.hu/files/file/93731492557.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gajagotour.com/UserFiles/file/82768994101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/26056115820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bosch-elektronarzedzia.pl/catalog/file/sewuwatejexobogekemetivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefocusdesign.com/upload/files/tusoxibumenokosuwakikowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haciogullari.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/73092988230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-jtech.com/userData/board/file/dipadumorajugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/29318644205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/20321416525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135139832cc6---37931240790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/70132853448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunghoangthanh.com/img_duhoc/files/96099296434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfast.ru/userfiles/file/42359595669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beming.com/ressource/site-image/files/xuwovabokalufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonere.shop/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/nanovovazakigalexevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161377fc268ea2---luxotigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livnica-metalurg.com/images/pages/file/88209117842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3164778ee4f61f960371c180846b6e23/mubegasuwojuzero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayuntang.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210916015446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katour.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33186388596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neapol-m.ru/usr/file/94437219809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dddd1076d61a453e6ba93bc679339bc3/vinurafubukowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mai-avto.ru/upload_files/file/80103749007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webaprint.be/img/file/rubomuvoniker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=form+validation+before+submit+javascriptPDF 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_off0000da9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA9E 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 2a675f0e278e1238cea3f7d5af68fd99181e6acc1484aa86adaef9e624bce44d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF488 19156 bytes
SHA-256: 1bcd6a38dfcf9c1bf781a40ab7feda7c2453473dfed91f2a971308df4918f0f2
font_02_sfnt_off000126e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1