Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5194b412991e592…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:04:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 81b886eba95d5da52690086c03b37eb7 SHA-1: 57dab347ecdf8ef88ef808725522e31b15415156 SHA-256: c5194b412991e592bb6c6975d960d037ff2a22cb890d4cfb636e0496b044ce22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with malware distribution or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802424d6e73---13768666491.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac656d70d1f---disunuzozegewerabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f222c42e47---tokiruxusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/18881655460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/wapogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/61669185423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bameka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montesantangelo.it/files/files/fubobijogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart//upload/file/luparetekifobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100529463ee3---85357150447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/rewudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giwamujopewutegekokudebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kr9q6g0q3nlrbpe1hat8mg3f9e/xiduvugagulilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb7f5382ab---lenutojalerutamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63555114321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/60e1c9e14e0cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/ginulejireli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/27550992111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ainut.fi/userfiles/file/rubafexijoxexiwurimidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/56932914584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210531113450742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/pajiruxojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8d4233501996b65d6f31e33229fc0ef/fulavegul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aci18kn691q25ce62fie3oth6v/26290050248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=the+negotiable+instruments+act+1981+pdfPDF 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_off0000c4b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dccb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCB 17120 bytes
SHA-256: a095a6c57de298c0035ea107db76740dfed60c5ffc14cf0f07fc89a6c2540733
font_02_sfnt_off0001094b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1094B 11700 bytes
SHA-256: f3f0bcb382957042666b985080f863bf4b7fda0096417b940a1e3ef955264c8b