Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cdcea2377e87b98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-10-04 12:20:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 01657b3ca1cd5d8102e2763418907fe0 SHA-1: 0a899ead5bea40f6ba9ca4dbfe0175178305ef22 SHA-256: 5cdcea2377e87b9868950621bf44a4eec9113279bf316406b73446429509d857
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=requirements+for+pre+settled+status PDF link annotation
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/24358743622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldstecq.com/userfiles/file/nisujimutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talesma.com/E/file/59711829890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161484d1e0a01b---depolimorejudokizoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145c6cd1f566---jakarenokazujidapedowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/48832139550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn---42-5cdakyymnnb9ake1az.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23951289938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/24325525690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384a42b2672---fokufidurasikuguteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktai.lmg.jp/upload/file/94485428938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stimatacasa.eu/userfiles/files/kavaxuwipetemeziwaponad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ftbkdcamitb5h.xn--p1acf/files/fck/file/98368910023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zentrumok.com/userfile/files/33483203888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxsasa.org/images_fck/file/1633172283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayhovietnam.vn/upload/files/xosawelutamurudik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laznia-radom.pl/userfiles/file/6669605953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.com/contents/files/99707017174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/xevisixaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/32982168907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/22718528590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155d0e2668d1---dafixolumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpshardorawal.com/hemkunt/userfiles/file/88364752345.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_off0000d73e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD73E 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 7421eea64eb028d4ac9ffcf40d5d2269170ad38d540389cb716c722ba17c1224
font_01_sfnt_off0000f059.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF059 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 3a2f3f6dfea104cee0bb371be28b2e0face8cfcab14c0bf9ee89d0461e579626
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1