Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c0a94dcee33d5dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:06:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 69adfa8975f78421414893509f784e45 SHA-1: 4f59cce28da5553edaffe43d21c5fd182c9f2746 SHA-256: 5c0a94dcee33d5dc4743040e1fc53500afa519b32c8a5d0badd4b76192b58602
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=make+3+way+call+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uet7tfv2rugfoc4cv5jc3q2a85/fitemesatajezizino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilpetrol.olajpark.hu/files/files/xopirewizozilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrikando.com/cmsimple/images/file/24790548055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ccengis.be/applications/ckeditor/addons/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60160705471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/65130510314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ee62e3b21---jawokup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurghadalife.net/userfiles/files/2133990873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nyig.com/files/file/zevikirupela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalsewa.com/userfiles/file/digolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb599930eb6bbdf09bc360cc8000e949/zimagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallarpurnaisuva.org/go/file/5071982371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416823bf2d7---65912778938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datenglagi.com/contents/files/vefekufagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/waparimebamitepozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proclima-membranes.ru/userfiles/file/39684384148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibingvibes.com/userfiles/files/viwifinoberupiwuriwexunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knipia.com/userfiles/file/94281508377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanyuchina.com/upload/files/70464155511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beganijewellers.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60485225285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poganyvolgyi.hu/userfiles/file/99827153516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatsafar.ir/basefile/eghamatsafar/files/77566334804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/14986359614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svltv.in/userfiles/files/50902150818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/55826416308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centaur.vri.cz/docs/files/3689053255.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_off0000e4b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B3 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 5d28fa8c96a50b407f61f4c42b2b4a6f29f38fc45c3a486cf64213ebd4e67d6e
font_01_sfnt_off000112c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C6 10556 bytes
SHA-256: d7942a1514c69e803af0d2233994399232ab223bd344b4debd0a620c7c06ce74
font_02_sfnt_off00012b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1