Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c76d3f885266d81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 19:44:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 377963bfb5f1a151ac60c38cf7b46c3b SHA-1: 3a2340165c5e62b1040af7f93c556865bd4608a9 SHA-256: 5c76d3f885266d81de0d1a306112f0a9cf54ab0ca8135863c9022733b11632cc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URI findings further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f45c76dc9ca---vunaxunelijate.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba6696028d---lutalanefiluwemevubamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/is95bdnd648aptmshu8lfbp6b3/lanonumane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42b1b9e815cfeb80bbae03aaa47d997e/94776032846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee4286c6121---delifijabezegafiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/349812193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boatmonies.com/uploads/files/80053015766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/lozukepodoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/xifakegekagalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39ocls6nun42j46iu6ahbc4087/77248304691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7d1e84a37---60151779764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cab20112a2---gapike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/nuwifawevekeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/kununorazomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61c32a357d8837bbd3c3b26897ecd71f/nuvamidijowurozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74b870bdebd24167651c99a14f8a0374/vijumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/guruzokubedupedanafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/tajawevixite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/15530687826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/86256264512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717c2f38f8b---51544005371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fb621ecac---52883943910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/xowatage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+carbs+in+bacardi+limonPDF 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_off00013507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13507 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014d1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D1E 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 32c367c093aa6da4521d74063d7ad1b0eda490afff1f763432ccf0a5a1ce819d
font_02_sfnt_off00016566.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16566 23924 bytes
SHA-256: 06afc3633e52765c5194543d99aef7a17a4232645e379bb4d676c9fc5753f039