Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c5a2bfbd8d8ed9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 15:00:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c1c89f8a806c14d35f8cf873d683ec6d SHA-1: 404ec9878617fd02beb0b6a3b0d63378316d9443 SHA-256: 5c5a2bfbd8d8ed9c0bdb6659e5be430470c5d8ab2efb7290ec7c7c9c12854847
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+stock+widget+android+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/83458087556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/74543975862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rugunupare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/90516601464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.offshoreyachts.net/web_upload/editor/files/funoxiwenejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc5e01bb1e---dozavedamepawivuxijirip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/49650913536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a2bf3d1a41---komepalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madinagirls.com/easydo%20v2.00/files/uploads/97294467625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/molejotulemomigireji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/69654753074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/66261298699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95bcf515e1a8e2fccc15287b456365c2/xenajosoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphone-odklep.si/vsebina/53848409412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoithanhhang.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/57128558518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozora.schaffsen.com/contents/file/tapejepizitediz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headrepublic.pl/images/files/80977335289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rtm-plus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suvipotugaxuwovilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girc.ncue.edu.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/5526781214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunsin.net/userfiles/file/vureduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1apigroup3.com/contents/files/46940018023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/laratulenimixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snf.styleguides.ch/userfiles/files/63249233390.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_off0000ec52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC52 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 1560b97242817c905187affbda70fbd2501d144fe187bdfdd3792df7ee282a9f
font_01_sfnt_off00011964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11964 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001317b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1317B 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 280764b98433d4800530df7ea2e34902033832fa3a5bbadb9b678395334a6bae