Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c2f478f2677392a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:47:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ee8aab391bd866693050fc7a117bff41 SHA-1: f34549a249b26a5f437483d2bdf6cc6c6af65792 SHA-256: 5c2f478f2677392ac735000f34db6c91ad5a676186b76e447431f6400cebe6be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the file is likely intended to redirect users to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=onerepublic+counting+stars+free+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/nofokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef7d2aa637---gilibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b47a320b16c48d178f497160924c75e9/kenodovaditusoxasolomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c97fa85093---vetoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/65900647067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a53d6e20c4---wisogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchiseharbor.com/files/files/14434022217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3259d7fbd1fa83b5313c50e43417d789/5385415181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tivatijapan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/22117576120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/97635995929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/jasapawebusojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4q1pr7esft3102ten5fkjlspi3/94482862088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozammuner.eu/userfiles/files/vunilemezogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f160f03a20---fupirofewagagawotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c629d5de9ad---77040038335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e9e5645ca---36080083275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/82447706384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/5715155952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92uatev4sl8tfed1733kqfpgf2/papixamulakazepiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de1566d26ff1bae75785f510a49ca657/jefusifodewekolutev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/75685149589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1827cf3cf12afc46d4548866a6cc41e9/mibifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skfap4elrpilfah5git7jkhh11/jixobevuvivorebofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/wewudotegomidulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095733847a94---17747996340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpmoto.biz/upload_picture/24188586098.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_off0000c9f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e20a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE20A 11488 bytes
SHA-256: af94aaec7e90c7d9ab8e81e0ba927d35161432c8d555c007b6e56da9c63acc89
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDF 18584 bytes
SHA-256: 2579f16c6da1771c5bdbcd7435aeb6db46a1999a2c3fa0b98d01bb779ad5b873