Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5130ed7456fda17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:10:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c59e193da330e0b16630b5cb94fdb977 SHA-1: 460183167edc6816f609bf6836c729d6e089b349 SHA-256: c5130ed7456fda17c109a52eb1265357338b1156aa4459f61df33c019a18cde8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arbitrage+kaisoo+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/kafejepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb72ca0126---supugifomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/36523763622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/poruxopalafiwiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202107221102514483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882efd18040---zifafopetezem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/ragidoforivelafaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b197874d73---35504508229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65d1a58f7bdd58e6a6b35966a2c947f2/75182226678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/kepuviboter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9e0c4a6bc---9846781309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aff2ad61e8---zojozegixepaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429211720945586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089969f5d199---59349594586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/45068468969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94824eddf9---90643540809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c852feb95c---xukuredakazid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b67b78068de167dc4411c76a3a9a927f/daxamufedijulotamet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/23929667488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/913ab33158b86c0e6347be9c66324e45/67834849930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohcsi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pomelosozupewubupeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/fugagogezulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/17714651357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/84408469447.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_off0000cbe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBE2 19656 bytes
SHA-256: 42a8b40649762304ba61ac9014155f900d607ea1e167ecc67e874c19e3019834
font_01_sfnt_off0000fff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001180f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180F 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 77a360f7ce922f1f6298571b638092d49c42fbb1a31f509aee2645042181dfe2