Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c8fc60705ab72c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-11 12:01:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 27bc1b50c539908a2dda877aba70ab76 SHA-1: 86e75abc9c2173b36f7048c0eeb75de18e64beb6 SHA-256: 5c8fc60705ab72c1f192cfbf796fb066c7c26aef7e0f73e5dd48136b7b61e471
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Microsoft arc touch mouse driver', likely a pretext to entice users to click on the embedded malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=microsoft+arc+touch+mouse+driver PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e33b7a1f96d6e4b50670d0034f7b575b/nulorodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnnk25vj7m3e1f9t6elqjm8k4p/3315572454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429123609648653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607116695847b---werasutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d801f35fe05b06f56aa9460510dde4f0/fotumusedoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d2104c0f379b81f60c36da3cf39d86/57579308475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/8723593886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d1c31f74b---79720513694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/jokapemorajubumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/87842351105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202161093134975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stbenedikt.ch/userfiles/files/14562698185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e224584fe2---79476046550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608520f15595b---dolowisixevadajuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/65539226095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file/%5C/2021051819514149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3B 5292 bytes
SHA-256: e98f9ba682636e3be15b6c6a8dc9461743cc08fc635af6fb172014c11eaf2f16
font_01_sfnt_off00010126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10126 10320 bytes
SHA-256: aa1029d3c543ab130346e7e63687a20e4a635988870f84fe28299ea7630ebfde