Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cd0cccf093abf4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 01:11:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 08ccf8ffd3a14869ef71f77fa927ccc6 SHA-1: 6d211d13dd80e41ef7b14b217081b4feab33b27d SHA-256: 5cd0cccf093abf4a83c9e32f363a028d81bfb7a792e253ac5e491c36f1bc2be8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and link farms, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is used to distribute links to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mulan+rise+of+a+warrior+full+movie+english+subtitles PDF link annotation
    • https://mrpressconsulting.com/UserFiles/file/jebozodegavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/35537417062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenerowe.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59403334513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/lerovabiweve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/31314476375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundationkuzmanov.com/files/vevef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmyhship.com/uploadfile/files/90957293418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f8fb2d23d---getan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dworbieland.pl/userfiles/file/16650301006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyberbirddog.com/userfiles/files/93370645360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariekevanvlierden.nl/survey/userfiles/files/88372290027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giltmorestukko.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31067687238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/5211397199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/files/24926897904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vopezezevojadovosowudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsecond.net/UserFiles/File/gapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecostationery.com/files/file/bukupavatapuboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a413c58c47806dec631119174ffeccc0/75812271694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmrh.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/gifipisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebillionbottom.com/business_school/uploads/file/66242280933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15335882568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75233f55b5a613d319bcb0b4e31e2251/porefunepuzositodevotawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/wogibufiwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354e5418473---bunawigeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevasilicones.in/userfiles/file/26233681125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65628748594.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_off0000de1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1C 21244 bytes
SHA-256: 65c13cc60f3040937b43f0793261da7c24e1b6f699eec5d528a915f9d430f040
font_01_sfnt_off00011640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11640 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E57 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 5999e1ea3522d85db28ce199db9f657677ea740e55ecbb3c76b7cf4a5679315b