Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cd648e52b51799d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-08-20 12:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: df80f46b16cdcaa65e081a15cdc83a13 SHA-1: 7921d58c5ce137a68ee6bbc6f25b685670efda13 SHA-256: 5cd648e52b51799d981f10d63e5dddfc373aed0cfbf1d5ea370ec02fc47b8559
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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://modra-skola.cz/userfiles/file/zitutizo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://silga.ca/userfiles/file/1810637021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4823e3a283f6a3b0fbf68acd9442a1d7/geximukiropafuzipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/89613351093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4805de57c67aafc12a898fb2627f492c/96322748247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210701190321_1gjyfk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mei0vonhtaco66sr5ic1gr8grk/93566016424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/zatevituwerenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ef4e3ccdfdefbae9cd8f56d0333b8c1/53536750534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6tabdaub1usgeshogd2s6gtuk0/toromuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b249b86a199---90033543556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/muvumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/1778614151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115b95f90b85---redemewegazudutusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c5083b5ed---sesusakepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paneldeconsos.com/userfiles/file/14623693860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funcarele.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuzilizijeguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/vidugabogorono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowarajaruteravikog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/dalugoniwugidewojufos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/menubaliseworudilumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/xazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100a235e7a14---8504601413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad83ffb96ee---tanafepilajojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f64d983fc9d4b97cb36b8163303de9/87568528871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c6e85adb6cd9e39e73417249afc7c0d/salusewawirekawamaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ikea+tromso+bunk+bed+instructions+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_off0000dfff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFFF 16280 bytes
SHA-256: 0336a2e681e5f45a5045810f29e12ef0b48f869480a7ba4a8f08b6caaa4a79b0
font_01_sfnt_off000109df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F6 11016 bytes
SHA-256: ee3b75f69393145571ecee68296b30ac72613a89f50f7d5810cf2682cc609853