Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cccf65365f6f95e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2ada3e005afceba78233660c69835321 SHA-1: 893d7ac37caff36aa84a2c4235c3a171afedf563 SHA-256: 5cccf65365f6f95efb9883a7f13a15791cdb92cc745c35fa382e4a0911161841
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for human consumption but rather to facilitate the redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://old.arcnet.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58507948792.pdf
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4a74921dc49421fa45262e3d8be7ae5/xekiwilojulogiw.pdf
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/110231554108.pdf
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/32977339191.pdf
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_34D2F0D1E2A990E9.pdf
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/27444804139.pdf
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/tujukixon.pdf
    • http://rotarytattoomachine.co/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/8617932246.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415652a3486---fumosesonudovuvuwa.pdf
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88ree9vbi3qg07f5bpfc39vaa8/2455059400.pdf
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/36198738935.pdf
    • https://ketex.com/trcgp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizefavo.pdf
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210910051902.pdf
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/97978796286.pdf
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/32179064304.pdf
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1euoprtdkdaj6h8e8a5qtvs3n/kutujivubokuvudatimunaxi.pdf
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/vizanafamimozipupusivefa.pdf
    • https://rossbeede.com/userfiles/file/53516055668.pdf
    • https://livresdarts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16305212606.pdf
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a693ad182fffe3d5e01301586f86bdd/zekoretatazu.pdf
    • http://vhshf.de/File/12014652519.pdf
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/tufarapakufufixedurulotul.pdf
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/kafuxuviporuvo.pdf
    • http://rainternacional.com/userfiles/file/gujezalij.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=spider+man+homecoming+tamil+dubbed+full+movie+download
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/temomujo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010501.bin
60c2cad1e752399675348c89adf951bc35d6225ee4b682c9d95eae6c8dd41056
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10501 11368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011f2d.bin
8f2e2c6dbd49cf06551a80c5997e4d313427d567c0135040a5804d8907a6b3b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2D 17880 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014da4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DA4 16792 bytes