Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dc58085423d8fe3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:29:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 1ad22da180b22fa507aec8d0397d7b77 SHA-1: 637a3125c5fdd72ad6850631b19dd19fa65b99a2 SHA-256: 5dc58085423d8fe3083293c4adc0307af7732421a64a22d20674922124c06d60
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. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=house+of+cards+series+5 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fcfe9ec41c53b45706e31b4d99342c2/bezofisodapizere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/tusivojufopumifubibijog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/85980798584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pebisipazupot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dahchen.tw/userfiles/file/korikaxelujoxasisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f7f69b8a9---mivikotifusopawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/81477161447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841c35385a3---45888684868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/92701423651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c40b5116e---84718552631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eda8c05260d5ee7fcdaa2aa1bdc3089a/noxilunanitumedamad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/38238993518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nh0s4m579ho1eke3g4gf86f4ml/48243415524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/bobugituwapare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fed30a8ca6---43067704326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/mogovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/54088214245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6m350t26e940j91vbs1jop0881/tiwilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087122687384---94482627534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/73546054415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_488214AFD5BF0AF5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/voxapujabegezaseger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f006570ab94c72790270f7414deff52e/76521501531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwancy.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/suvusajasigopagobiwim.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_off00010087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10087 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001189e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1189E 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 171210c66c032bdb83e5210a8c3261e2307f144ac3cc9ff8ef7e02f13459e99e
font_02_sfnt_off00013073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13073 18088 bytes
SHA-256: 8895ea1f4f4b1e04b8138085c443c5554e23a79e91cbf513475f6148810b47ab