Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c264ed6db464b6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 09:13:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d2b202daca7671be2dd930af9ebeba0c SHA-1: 568e82bf35a5048bc0b815fb7624f6007cbe51d4 SHA-256: 5c264ed6db464b6af8eab7ec25a828a94532d2d92b70c42c509dad7cac962020
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=timber+floor+construction+details PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/33359696844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ensky-chemical.com/upload/files/waretunudogifuzijozepuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/20850088008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/vixirasogelokulogidozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents/files/duxuvibawepezelovalobuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fef49af02c---dodev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/44464694423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsunyapi.com/userfiles/files/95896602688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipro.ma/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/89294421089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a36627ef9---83086886391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/15674580184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inica.org/files/file///30964581554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/39691061021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39ea49d14f6e4bbbc6ed90835fcbc7fa/51761272486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallahi-sch.com/userfiles/file/21361080297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisleri.genefied.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81862661292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/51140078716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianshunqs.com/admin/upload/93863796030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netart.hu/userfiles/file/gadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161467864bc8af---20091745064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/sisarojubifodavafefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/kedizalisirawofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/38532167934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/1904666614.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_off0001246e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1246E 19828 bytes
SHA-256: 3527e52e8c58f2431b52e7ea33b516f43d5d4bfb12305fb57f70677c185f30aa
font_01_sfnt_off00015759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15759 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 938bdcb218b93473d13639fb55f709983625fb74b0a0bd7138bbc8dfff290cae
font_02_sfnt_off00017058.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17058 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1