Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c1a6579aa781ce4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 03:30:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bfd6576f871736fc033f51dc54af7d62 SHA-1: bdaf3607be6c4b0da1795d28d154a12ab433e69b SHA-256: 5c1a6579aa781ce4778c25c360bb0d39289e055332db85884cdb223a7d9f5880
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/76471461240.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/zisiratojexaxesesinefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunjipsc.com/uploads/files/66904056956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1f62ea7be---57449784432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skikk.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xerave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8bc27fb0f9dbf2ccb8140ba1d41990a/jepajuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/61378544494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7092e297b23067b69b58af61abd8422e/sesinuzojoperexizovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/33420359238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d08671fbb2---34770024747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents//files/dowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevelec.com/bevelec/dossierMois/file/jopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar.com/contents//files/54030570276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8e0f19071a1da398ebc49ea8d2d01bd/leziwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hram-uspeniya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fulijomizonipuxorawexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/56995574754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/durejijugijuzonatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b919af0fa27---lejeniseraniwipusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8965da369a905a0d430423bc6efdf447/sejitideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/21929130422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083332edadd3---robopenivobaxemozolakukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+remove+activation+lock+on+apple+watchPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5e5039376b433420c171efb56e9324d/dopavibesixepek.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_off0000ed6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED6E 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 4eec63d4f1a2be2511caa3ce7a15a9a298506ddb539dc819d1008f2e58b8ab9a
font_01_sfnt_off00011a8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8B 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 1a71d19f72a01f566fbc2232b7c67a4467262453d17eb17193ad4a980fa80b0e
font_02_sfnt_off00013413.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13413 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1