Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c99eed00cc0fa74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4e607770434280f4771482e234735162 SHA-1: ac242ba0498e542b37785e82dd64ec827cf92879 SHA-256: 5c99eed00cc0fa7417c27fc343e03c357a21d4c2dc1edf52717daf366e65858a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a phishing or malware distribution vector, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/fozazula.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/xonekevuganomobolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/foo8ev7p2v520v2n6ohf1kam7t/75732007299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/nexubidokesegedoliboxagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608e6ba521ad4---vizovozofetozude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjrhv3m4ahith0l3bqb9cothdr/41912739526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ckg3ku2kuluom04q7c1kgn18/tazuzurunukemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/buxavakuvesejosusunovupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holyfamilyhospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wavakemivofarujewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106ea2d6fddd---tejejeramebiwuwuredol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/vewirizewozemutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/xesade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/40382563441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/78562571291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161237fc252571---13228268490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/67416315038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/zosijuzidunapufom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ceeb75834e---leruwafubipamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/romogoxopuzukinesutona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/pumetamimudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87afb7176b3e4b281aee163a4f821977/33505557932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/fovisiwogimebazavigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b990fb94c93---nigugewixulekebova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/fuxariweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bd9784811---nuzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jedukakof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa381d3cf2---jegex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=communication+skills+listening+speaking+reading+and+writing+pdfPDF 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_off0000ea41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10258 11272 bytes
SHA-256: b9ea0ac6fe740778ff601496ac08d823f2d7b96643a6f3eef82a68c3b81c9a09
font_02_sfnt_off00011caa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CAA 17528 bytes
SHA-256: e42d9a2485f8ddaed1ef28a2a4247bf3ac8935a7843bc64108419559144a3f40