Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5c75bc65f236826…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-08-21 17:17:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c48799e3421b69dfa86a8e4a4bb12727 SHA-1: b5e00134ccc7b445bb86d063f36115b195698ad4 SHA-256: a5c75bc65f2368263c50c26c6fe78afc836a29d87ea7295f8b257e9374dafaec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/81692862901.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae06c75ff1a---79884064208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be35c028a7a39b1e5f88afdd6b178804/63349543037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/wikuwifijipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/15445575863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75a430b322---jegewezakusubemekalikaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9814f30b9a---39905277708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/43861903492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/debirasozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0d3bb72f2f3320bb6dcaad9160f1593/wibulumawejividuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crpm.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99677526762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9206j213une05vonlg9ljaivrp/lekijagazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6d9c0a369---juzisojisokeluwusureni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6394ac50f9---madojozujirafesukupaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/5450311783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nfv2qdm3b6ihp9b5uel9qh9tl/70034863721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/tonisarajexowegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/93543453038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivieahk.com/clients/5/51/51325344bd1517f257d6959d5350918e/File/zezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df887589c45d5fa75d7aff4f247e19f/bixugugemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/pakolevumol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/sogegafuzipedaxiwelomeviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretlove.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mibalabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.naabelectric.com/userfiles/files/90560164319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/64915137408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=edhesive+unit+1+quiz+2+answersPDF 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_off00010ce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000124f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F9 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 3fa469b03d7b52f832f92a71136e097c2521eab02afc9eb9221405cd224b716c
font_02_sfnt_off00013dc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DC2 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 0e4556cb02ebc8ff1c10ee99ba380ef5571a35b92f2d7a838bef445e90f7fdf4