Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c151d67aa40aa29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2638a7d92b00ae26f4d89be8b8fb27c0 SHA-1: ad2f2e5450565669a3153b5eb1ad2c54bb0c6bc9 SHA-256: 5c151d67aa40aa2921113824b37f0496df2b9d19334afa2fe310e9b35414bb0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+total+surface+area+of+a+cylinder+is PDF link annotation
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba76ca927c5250622779ed3219a565a8/94470454081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609814bd2509f---83500650281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f492b711c5---33939534115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/nejago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pritchardreunion.com/clients/81409/File/17538314190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d1c4c7fb4---51091990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53da0495a0---lanupoxowuwizadunumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8447f3750172a5e04fddff6846d681c9/9119806280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/873ed8e4c0962b64fd4880c21bafbf2e/vokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajobaguzakunolabizugates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topplene.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210613153535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubak-ubezpieczenia.pl/userfiles/file/fusijovewebusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/22872081782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf4bfb058a9e7fb40f6671a6dd636d37/pubewajawonisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/zezijubaxebawifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/gokalowaralarefojabeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/75997545911.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_off0000c272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC272 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA84 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 21cf434eb62c013d521a335e703e8d18f0d3c9f75912fbf83f2b79b24ff832b0
font_02_sfnt_off00010672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10672 10752 bytes
SHA-256: a3b7e04c4109590d18a1963dc59560e20770f27198071b6d1ca7448a75df5eec