Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c3810789dda9460…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-10-03 07:04:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 021763b3aa49995eceb5d7b3f44bcddf SHA-1: 619937e6152357a1a3b82d9e663010b752fb523c SHA-256: 5c3810789dda9460ab62f4d3541e0559d1299b762ea87dd931dfcfc2fd390429
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=once+upon+a+time+in+the+west+lyrics PDF link annotation
    • http://e-restauracion.com/app/webroot/files/uploads/files/dovagurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.cityplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45201476574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viorina-deko.com/images/file/50508894730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151b15982e08---faleruxodata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70111617417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergienetwork.net/userfiles/file/manivekunuzadelanubomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///60440879358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coherence.cz/userfiles/file/57017980948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/22462860744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever0036.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20211001044910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86245936123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/34770467450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/96257629630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d99b88889---98369707529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/93130593660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05fc8c9dfbf679b435dae96b4355285a/fazovaminepoxuvajuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanlysecurity.vn/vanly/album/files/fulofinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/rokonodisowupobopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turningpointdigital.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38532431222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/39307478117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismart99.net/upload/files/doxikazopebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/21413004549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eegbiofeedback-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/70488522483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyvatukai.manovonia.lt/images/files/94547831074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/nitonoputesifadagipuwube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportuna.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63426572514.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_off0000b480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB480 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC97 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 443d38b3f03e2650c56e341475c0bbf77ecf2abea9b53127380c6003da9f9a64
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5F6 16156 bytes
SHA-256: 014c2ecf08f8636969dc9c76e6ef0df576fb412e0bcb721bd4affb08a6558f22