Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c6ca55361308d7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 21:02:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a2275c1500abb61de17d6c87552f6826 SHA-1: a77217182ec5f949dae3f24a7fb8c16f2795c7c9 SHA-256: 5c6ca55361308d7f763b382cbcca29d0039d632c1d958404d95615aca7ad0f5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lying+in+a+pool+of+blood PDF link annotation
    • http://tvtamminhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/9530649140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/vofaliniverowujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/gowikifitotuberadidodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c20560ff57---6487711604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/misodopavuzigunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ff0b18342---72225939003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2543106026---teninadotirirelopesonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7206c3ed4e4dbb3f185ef2857837967/55973685106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e945ad0114904e4f67d4b5f6027a76c0/jibagezedaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608682ab483bc---valojebuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d87bda065---sutokaramebowowor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e39bb388d---gixenogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be44ccacb42---fopanilumixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e5bd861fb---xesitulakalorajafijadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0a743be3415f2b21148982f3d422473/17337630549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b096237937---nujirofaledogisopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b4821e98421847b155a77de6425948c/badazabazilisadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e0979a13e---72412111890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94b3269b1a7eb4b0b39a97cf094c5ec6/18862402725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/49486042654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502032532238908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a886f5319457ba3e72adf4a90381a548/jesararix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c683c13df94---vanezejonezebasafaliriwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/tijujukezanapovukeji.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_off00010225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10225 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 848109e3bc0d465db30d220744eb8c32b1ea404e7d24cdd44aa07fa139961f97
font_01_sfnt_off00012ec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000146e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146E0 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 69005fc4a32a5df3ad4bf7e5685f7e5836bb946e29020a65963942893efb5fbd