Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cc14f3858250ff8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-10-03 16:55:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 8d52c34fabc7e18ede26fa5fba94cacf SHA-1: da4c993a4f0eb5fc192154b62c7cc1158b519042 SHA-256: 5cc14f3858250ff83d6cf8e939146d44f6a73cd5ee2344844e821f56a4229f6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to lead users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=taylor+swift+song+writing PDF link annotation
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42190770995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/82520941299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/52158811349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles/file/1864355441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///tivakatidefajivavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021090816272626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeloosschinkels.be/userfiles/file/98544633109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b82c7bf42---32207981806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.eu/userfiles/file/15291152326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daverejuwukusawasumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/mezumuwotododutizagofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29188434408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/75308092846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industra.sk/userfiles/file/55407129943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02bc1bdc8cff9478a7ffcde3650bbd8b/fekesiteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/27823201019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/sowivixibavamojadodolufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamranghaiphong.com/upload/files/xojabafijaxatoxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revucue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nevawojoluniguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koparieshorvathbusz.hu/files/file/sonupenurebabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ca4c14da8e3eda30dad5e84a8e95f13/zanipojowuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51706047646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxxbs.com/uploadfiles/file/a/kagobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.eu/gymostrov/userfiles/file/mekupobalaga.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_off0000ae77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE77 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 423f85a6d4d046798259c1e2759b3828553537995d45bce38bcd75a65df85ec7
font_01_sfnt_off0000c649.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC649 14548 bytes
SHA-256: 99943ae66a802001ea282995e1907f89227ce2969dfbf3bb84871f4efea9924c
font_02_sfnt_off0000eada.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEADA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1