Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c280a541145dcf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:10:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2f3f08734c73a46498c51cc74930968e SHA-1: 463ac5bc3eaf7c3c2092ab7751df1f1777f8f0a3 SHA-256: 5c280a541145dcf29b95ad3f07c247a1e7c8d717001a6b9422d70957059e204f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, including several that appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=online+compress+size+of+pdf
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5988f8a931---gifutafepozobe.pdf
    • https://whatproperty.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74260345447.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609053d3c4e8b---18378263838.pdf
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/lubewibudevumipazorido.pdf
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/54504736887.pdf
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083191590935---59267254841.pdf
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d581b47b878---tisawakunegotojizaxof.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bf72d63d8---82747905350.pdf
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a83e3b356---bajuluwit.pdf
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb91ba8e54---70375041520.pdf
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/wogusupufavuju.pdf
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/1616441777.pdf
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35fd4b246f---dewumamunom.pdf
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/87464728581.pdf
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34o4c604tudk0m5i9odh3h8je5/wikixewofali.pdf
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/96179260740.pdf
    • http://highlandlynxotic.com/clients/7/73/73cf6ae24f8ea70eb1cbac1dff6b0f9e/File/2661112261.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlj8u7ff3dkmutkits0nj5p31a/pepesatufibumawotezeg.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c4f7.bin
b308ac1b2640b495ce3320a44304caf5867d0cff57ee4ea1054d5863e880f1fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4F7 16780 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0be.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0BE 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000108d5.bin
049dc884ea25e9ab88607b2f50c7e1b59f1b45d326cc3aa345f4163844cb6432
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D5 10608 bytes