Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c267c191f61cf39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:18:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 26ccacfacc7a686ed87d87315024b296 SHA-1: cb6c0f3530630ccbc4b7540a73af99237a07071e SHA-256: 5c267c191f61cf3951ecbf3a46fe0a4ae3fc62d3128bd0e49afc4729e13f4d69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with PDF-based malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099132a952c7---kezujosaxiza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cz/upload/gavidixafizusebikiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba66079d0a4---84546846977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nivodakigeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/dexabikinelexelirataziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/14770404368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/tepefukorajekegapubuxenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0cb8b83d5---xujovesobesixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nipebegaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/xoxuxivuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7ce949745---26586983568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/70886107818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/52325258476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/fusukipizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukikostka.pl/uploads/page/file/kinap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmoscm.com/contents//files/sikabonamirolasodavimiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vas-vill.hu/userfiles/file/nawuburozapape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e3e0a76fbeced3c20568e1c0dfad5a8/momodirizojaseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b6a9edad484411d658952472c68b985/95304144872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/savulelutozesogojus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/pesuniwanuwomileluxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8ec2b93cb0---losimini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f965633f0db---92857214132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b40816a55c---niveriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=haynes+saxophone+manualPDF 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_off00011af8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF8 10532 bytes
SHA-256: e5df6d4eb91fac8c4ae00fab05eb4291cccf3a683878b25d2f198ee6883cc538
font_01_sfnt_off000132be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014ad0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AD0 18852 bytes
SHA-256: 383389ad401871252824f38eaab2e9c6e9b0a77fdbc1e7c3fe7a34e108651eb1