Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c40e2148eec0ce7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8cacf1b9b330efdabf1ba76116dd98ca SHA-1: c6fc5e96e090a984d6bd0c87673159d0e2a5d0f7 SHA-256: 5c40e2148eec0ce766929e9b44e2dad958616a3a2823cd05196a093d018d3e55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cardiopatia+hipertensiva+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///dajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075919da676e---23329890355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8869be738---66334316642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53b85fcae166d9ee17b10ab3a20d7736/97306380059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/kamabiziloxotavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b173f282b---wutonulapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf497638b3---96015127254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/12023106194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6176478076---93153193044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.info/contents/files/tavosusoxotozawogajupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhquan-group.com/upload/ck/files/93229663998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/35251560885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6ht6v42rs1k8adplntmvuoql7/jiwaruxurerodiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/novozifukonilewadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/nunovakupetasamubopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83f61ce9983792b71597eccd2001176f/81870698777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/soxuvene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c475f092280---bazelonedisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/95358809849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a6eac2843---32525512862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/repit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/73154265060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/rojusofadaxesumak.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_off0000b879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB879 10648 bytes
SHA-256: dc3e1a72cbb187363127949a5d44764c0f1ce3df360e453685f9430eaaff945f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D7 16396 bytes
SHA-256: 3a32b6bb47ae6e2e670ef51197821016602a3dbcb290637d38d367a1ef09c899
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1