Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c574e4264b5ca5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:54:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f0431dd1958ec1297193b4e55437cba7 SHA-1: 37fdcffb2fad6ce800f736ca1fce48b53ffaeb6a SHA-256: 5c574e4264b5ca5c8bb7f2ec522408be087d5d5a8bc80d81d979a4a1f4a9529e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c866fc532b0---69020738097.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a3eca2550---19273454174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753758e98ba---jomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngssc8dct53lqgvs1tmm0dlm0a/zubidigobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/pibafirubarerejaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/55558553590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/22968041882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/17857942207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/miruxerikaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22970aba616d1c061d0c922b21d80034/wujutijidafukufakevug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/zaderegakivegemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/notepoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/98061094328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ae019eab51a4146059538a3c3a3aac7/12539694660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fredericjean.net/oplusco/file/61256036558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908b10cd966---manunobokupifebeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/39109170478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6a0f42b3c3---gifuxixibagonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc541440c8d---bobunogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skikk.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/63570088141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/43657361315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/321efd2e422f53f1588bb0c600873341/97233696728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/30496883422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128f412ce635---38852487467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=simple+english+grammar+tenses+pdfPDF 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_off00010022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10022 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11834 18688 bytes
SHA-256: 5f33240ff5d68dfdc1feacdd5b3bd1530eb0023c184439ea103734bed9125126
font_02_sfnt_off0001485c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1485C 10900 bytes
SHA-256: d398a654c9cfbfc9263fcf9c245543478e13ae7261a62bac52580c736e850559