Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cdc3def7a72c175…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cfb56d65cb6af0952acac5d261a7f4bb SHA-1: eb5573f7692d1cae1f31ecc08903eafc8747d9e1 SHA-256: 5cdc3def7a72c17579f2291f0674e4259dfb989f44613998501b75caf7d47408
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of multiple external links and the 'link farm' heuristic suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/nedelerifukufa.pdf
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/zerutoturunebul.pdf
    • http://coimbrasoftware.hu/images/uploads/files/75475449539.pdf
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/fatawubutemixisufa.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a666e7199---61876479269.pdf
    • http://kingkady.com/uploadfile/files/niwid.pdf
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/98585256532.pdf
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/20259985617.pdf
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/remavesifakim.pdf
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/mediwatigakedax.pdf
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kinigokibimabewaf.pdf
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropoxekedowulemura.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avbc8qt7o8a4b4b7cv0s8dneb5/puvanisajuxovumi.pdf
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/19261134186.pdf
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/46975592403.pdf
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/18913874913.pdf
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/81731204649.pdf
    • http://energyexcess.com/userfiles/file/tojikobajimemigugogased.pdf
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d426d66ae7---zogoverixipu.pdf
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912022028366929.pdf
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nofiwubabamizulezebog.pdf
    • http://ideal-site.ru/userfiles/file/74323837012.pdf
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sevevukujarodadag.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=bala+guru+swami+c%2B%2B
    • 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_off0000c532.bin
e3553ff92d5f58e11ffdd83aa7810c13092ff682546d45587a40febb5c694855
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC532 10356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dca7.bin
7c9bdcbf1f6c838bb825c1f8bfe7d0c7405d7dec467fdc1870bb2c4bfbc69246
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA7 17200 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000109d9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D9 16792 bytes