Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c7cbb0427f11de3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:04:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6916dcc91bad7f20a03772c4df548233 SHA-1: c5b3a2c66f3a5b9e4eff1be14b117bda438019dd SHA-256: 5c7cbb0427f11de3d7b3176d812259c7bb56d5ab30ac4394dadc355268eb4b6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. This structure is indicative of a phishing or scam campaign, aiming to redirect users to malicious websites. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+9t+reboot+problem PDF link annotation
    • https://oferta.lt/i/File/dosikalupegijoruwapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/xiserelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleangroupbd.com/ck/upload/files/5974137039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camelliafb.com/uploads/files/202109060703095776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d109ad9f22cb9e6c5ca5267f9f313eea/14417968820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3619936143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57986976602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/dunovevose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realtor-madrid.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/sesebujumegabawilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/puzifizefatavupesabisixud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e07013ce47---zozipolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzph.com/userfiles/file/Fl202109100549576286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/guranafukusesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/11072001108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xudavumuxezizeloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/67819384846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/bidixuzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sowlindia.com/userfiles/file/kosuvudenubobisokizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614583af3f272---98254176008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/kefome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/bikovuguzekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/24843011255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-premium.com/user_file/files/66131620816.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_off0000cc1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e42c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE42C 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 47420c68ab5304b9d2b0ab6cb87754b22ea26168e9b44b328412b7e8711aac45
font_02_sfnt_off0001131d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131D 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 77ef6f6e375a84f6b945f165075c1a3b5009d7f478a09bbff32480ca15c94a03