Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c5ee3c90387e352…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:01:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 274e6e52d1eadda805942852e1ce397d SHA-1: 64d7d8b79ece7e916005041f00b275e469dc28ee SHA-256: 5c5ee3c90387e352b446f0614f2c0de3a50b5acec473cedf727b57b1e84c773d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document's structure, being image-heavy with minimal text, further supports its use as a deceptive interface to trick users into clicking these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 70 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=first+grade+punctuation+worksheets+printables PDF link annotation
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/86641002761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didaktika.drmix.cz/uploads/files/nekovutinexuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fd40ee8d28---53418155174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/46316166726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/79786350211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.roimages/file/87996201080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/21902725092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efe267176d3---46560316836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202108291617391991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/fuxapidaxatutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/goluvemomuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hazeloyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vetijixukewasafabumiviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/fafiguwaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6daans7a5brvcs3a53n4ospj6/nedejubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/vegemirukopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/lazuwenedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a9915af46---bavizimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/93192137065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjo691lou7n22b60hm52ru8i92/pozosimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/15168339557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i11umo3rhtv8iiv1r8f8917j52/71122662473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f010129d496---42188314610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etenindex.nl/images/uploads/visizekot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/nadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tselectromechanical.com/uploads/CKfiles/files/wixewopukikawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologadamczak.pl/userfiles/file/dupade.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_off0000b682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB682 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 56d368e28253ceb7d16b6cd91fd5c262c21c710f6f58d69f8f59aff73f00bb62
font_01_sfnt_off0000d036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD036 14364 bytes
SHA-256: dac4ebf782f36f344fbdbfea742d30c98a4e1eef86dc8a848e5f61ca24e2468c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1