Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ced26353edbad6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 89abb3e2dc915e303a282a4a1862c214 SHA-1: 2444f2bbcdeb010d32be9640209db92549245bbd SHA-256: 5ced26353edbad6d7f10792117b08396b6762eaff22fe90962aca2ef9aaf31d5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to download malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://myshopgroup.com/userfiles/files/43132568369.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4o2q39a3inqakk35emq9unopg1/33695622905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4681b06a257c44e9d8e001aa51352b14/fugugivotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd78ef3f3c---71713989565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crcnueva.naturasoftware.com/uploads/images/files/kajugogiguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pecintajp.com/contents/files/tidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienthaopc.com/upload/FCK/file/63442942807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tchacep54gos9iulkrteo8hfu5/sodoferigadogapesirufepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/diriwaxire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/devadefogadasigetaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/37619377678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/file/51058279560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55607419840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/97028021667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-photo.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86628634014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iact2001.com/userData/board/file/zojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltimescare.com/attachment/files/xejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/logawiboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafegreenwichvillage.com/uploads/files/57323948856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kroonzuivel.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/41015440989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreadramatour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_2D760606679ADBE2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudasazukeponedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autohausnschmidt.de/userfiles/file/zuzupedatarorugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/lixidofulumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fishdom+mod+apk+iosPDF 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_off0000e12c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE12C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF943 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 8b9d4cd17db5e0b5008f2df252f821c3013d1f10f800f72617a614ffe4a7c8a1
font_02_sfnt_off0001102f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102F 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 9b5fe1170d3186da7b46c78688459adabc439fe06b6acf9194ed7c3daaa2c98d