Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5065018efa744f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:54:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5abf398b42cbd7b0f97561577106eaa8 SHA-1: 0275f41954a86737921e490ecf01018001e58ad6 SHA-256: c5065018efa744f972931945225d59244e2aa26c643e44d107143c53b3659393
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, a common technique for distributing malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable binary data, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure.

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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://istanajp2.com/contents/files/35632999205.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/35110564978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buguzefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/1916379815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/gezebasido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86585256751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altaamir.ipixpms.com/Rapport/public/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/surux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021091009450973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/62619066635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/wojexekipamufisekaxogeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c4d358e6f---bikavilanenovenezuveto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l04e9li74os735s0mmr8638kk1/wanivedumisitodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufurizonedunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapempi.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72498437934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410d9dc7a33---boberapitidoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheniou.handysociality.com/upload/files/1853626452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/81625100462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemental-ia.com/userfiles/file/89446969061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/nuwarino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f99tuls909l26bgj5085veg1lg/rufukabonuror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/25627129240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412030b02f4---7357588867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/45715047159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trongtrucsolution.com/uploads/files/menamowolewexejilejakada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=quicktouch+automatic+clicker+downloadPDF 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_off0000e5cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CF 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 4f6e0f47fb944dd4d792d6ad3c50d9f9604678c74d372c9e129dc67e80c57854
font_01_sfnt_off00011216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11216 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A2D 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 95fb0676a7e35c2ab966ab87ca04c6f88e222cad7c56242e82031cfb1a70dba9