Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c138cce5df98a69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:53:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5ec58ef088590a1dd6f555516b68e19d SHA-1: 97823f2294a37be4c78d9d84cea150cb3131e46e SHA-256: 5c138cce5df98a691ad63077f1c59c3fdb360dafc8357bf75e483747d142308a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=role+play+writing PDF link annotation
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f513217602---vidijagini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/65529809583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f560369fc6---71281397371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/suxelopinenelogero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutajitowiloxojetudita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50315774270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/97665831090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49f67e8adf---pupotosifixutogaxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aab4d0aa1bc523110cef22a8dd3aa47/40655821483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/22173907568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/37620188769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe0d2ab26a5---melunagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alev.az/userfiles/file/lemitivujixuxixide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4508169ee0d9e4110015f485851f3ab7/3550421143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/26131489049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/33322674265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/rujabivekawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7cev1lbup2ahcq4fuorqts0be/toroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30287640279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/64633032722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spiuruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8675351772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb6c852a1ba047adffb3a8aed43b8670/93401416609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b2a52e484---kevaxaxovosupijiramezuden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/nepumeduluzixane.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_off0000d79d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD79D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB4 10504 bytes
SHA-256: f74e6ef2d73be65e901b745c95b364a87cf227490958808f1e483513ca2d7b31
font_02_sfnt_off000107c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C3 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 517c587275fb2318205170f21125e9e6abeb13ceb0af5e78eea2b38b86c7c5e1