Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c5c9753f93c9836…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:31:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: c50cd532d027646748c572dcf9baff9d SHA-1: e05413569910d89f76a9f615fa2d9327bd2ddc46 SHA-256: 5c5c9753f93c98368bedac6933c5c3e30bb1a22bebfefc16be97e43d3f9b5d73
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The heuristic 'SE_SECURITY_BYPASS' indicates the document may also instruct users to disable security software, further increasing the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hl81m4j0oth65i8lmf9ermuli0/45108190236.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28c8c5971c---sawaferukadoremijolelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa650b5af3---6140915781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/44290377657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfadbf9fd572df9166dcad82f04bcabb/gekofakoriwutiboxewukal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c04b1bdf24dc01c34190f1e246df060/tasalip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetsanprospero.eu/userfiles/files/53600606140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84530363a99645c8b18aa00f126a9df/wakoxofegikukuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c573c03763725a2c5b9b8565f30a2d6/79485784109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608581ac3289b---96841685184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeb765141d175992c9bd1f6e87ef1482/99900166031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/62756836159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/292200057258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://td-mg.ru/uploads/files/jopinilizewudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapfenberger-schuetzenverein.at/userfiles/file/9943018679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inncredel.com/uploads/sonufizoxigug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n17b39kek38raf3oa08lui9hck/31969941813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161162bbd00c4a---kujokokegomeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/donijiwudinajugekabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.orthovision-lublin.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98589442208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wagaloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91eb1c62f48f4404a6042c3590b7578c/taxalifigijibutawesuxape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/45801188849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://le-luc-braslou.fr/images/file/2457290943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24x7taazasamachar.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/mekupunorezixulaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=download+gta+5+for+pc+free+full+version+highly+compressedPDF 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_off0000fff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF7 18476 bytes
SHA-256: 48f4f1f843e2711aada8bfdb51d853352e436a5cf4d711790db58721c2cbea2e
font_01_sfnt_off00013065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13065 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001487c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1487C 11568 bytes
SHA-256: 4e70be9184e986dd2f90ff7376cfc95ef0fd798860435296175e3ed6b7d62800