Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c64853c6ae167ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:51:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9577488ca0f6e90d33cc0d10acd419d6 SHA-1: d2a8fa301a5b231af918032434f36199ddc42da9 SHA-256: 5c64853c6ae167ad2c029ca8fc75df844e483b4e4b045f11dce625d2333ed379
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and numerous URLs suggest a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=section+2+mitosis+and+cytokinesis+study+guide+a
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d5d52cafe---60192187160.pdf
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/lumuseribuz.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8155ab1cf---dotujuzegifa.pdf
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba209445e70---43286562339.pdf
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/88723397632.pdf
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/mifavu.pdf
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mng1vivafmm76na2snt9cko31k/kapowalepedunem.pdf
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1af8e7f86e---kikepopotanebafuvorodezik.pdf
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/gagirafazalufu.pdf
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61cb407115ec8f30a28fd69cc3a62c9f/kazuwudiwabinekulube.pdf
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/bixabe.pdf
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/saxoxobafedijibarawamoz.pdf
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d5a16fcc8---xarolu.pdf
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/lidekozobazuzurewafav.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d0d124fe7---rikudij.pdf
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab2e6a170f---60239600718.pdf
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9o37sf2fcctf8nuqvlvb2roqlu/86411677839.pdf
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53670937924.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b480d6d713619c6b2c9eb614f248dc5/nidigafurelonigelim.pdf
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c110ad25d1---molewawiluximufalivoxo.pdf
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/350e820d3b576a778b1cc457bbd9ee50/dopazofolatelujot.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f84b.bin
e284d6497ef616d6b881bcd9ca9397c2557578dc0f375ab1b30cbe66d715343f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84B 11068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000111f4.bin
215fd311d1875eadaf66be74fbd4ac7dcac911d301fdf65eceeacee0c5011072
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F4 17160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e78.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E78 16792 bytes