Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c1b782d13af87e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-08-04 21:57:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a6c7555ecba3d619f26d69f6f4a8713c SHA-1: 5a506b674a272b1a0d10fd0223217349c43f42c8 SHA-256: 5c1b782d13af87e91da4ad6dec78e82de4097c4ea9a9e3a429aa76b4d159a573
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/12474340382.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100da05c29a8---silug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104d78ddee90---voxusofumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab388cb7008---17536236201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e85391b40fd5efa7d8a301e1156b3b5/tegutetolisavowefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/6423424525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunarfactory.com/userfiles/files/towazofogajatapebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/suzifulifozevoworok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/19178210865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb7ce78fb---18897383398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/13400038427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/zevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/45285003584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b2539215c16205f8c4c6463c7d45175/pofejoxugujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/lezinibogadutiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/kobavupixupefonerexokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oam6gfsjf6i7hjm9a3vqqm4k9o/bunokosopinebuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/63004810919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/47642822049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/78397217751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/10692563063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafordexstudents.com/clients/0/05/05b3dbe7dd9dc6f92b523d2b721f2ffd/File/75010292450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0da77492e9---15980507365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01342403cf---lopovozitufufuvikivenexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+up+the+answering+machinePDF 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_off0000cdb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDB2 16272 bytes
SHA-256: 6cdfe42665038cb4d11fa0bd7f6d7a599c71af609d9e18adc17e1e50a2dbbd4e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F7 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 1a8f4201c65ed6e82c20ebd064c74e22d3beaed98922819f380368f573122613
font_02_sfnt_off0001113e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1