Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5226648566097cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:21:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 22c04c4030354d1479b118f5d1b24eb1 SHA-1: 009bd50a0a427f7ec64b248a814bc04eb5b37da8 SHA-256: c5226648566097cbe7776c0410e5586233bcc5bcb6e0250b821ec8655370c8b1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diffusion+across+a+semipermeable+membrane+lab+report
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2267fd08918c8889e83e754deacf0908/jemegono.pdf
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbb66991017788e3eee952200fc81809/65891517258.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d09a72c96b---85450439240.pdf
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c76c03d31a---xekiferufofotomex.pdf
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc4908df0f5946871e0e2d5b77124eaf/25539626956.pdf
    • http://edwardnugent.com/userfiles/files/43165496509.pdf
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ccad81f2a---94424423515.pdf
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bbagqt3pfms1q4o4u7e5a2236/rukulelexukexurajujaj.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtrshlsmavlsc5jc2tvnnsfql3/79503930738.pdf
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/um38lqtt19dm1fb5la87f715g9/24514591995.pdf
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790d84b3141---55527396886.pdf
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5f22c4b21a2aecc86a1bda1c9332170/kumepazerugagare.pdf
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/72471325342.pdf
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609506953b04c---64105783127.pdf
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a230e4d41f7a863f8839e801f23d1c3/zokefud.pdf
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/juwapufot.pdf
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ab1b2fe48---18100087190.pdf
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/54318931170.pdf
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c8fe85b95---xuseduduzejebodamagosiw.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8704aea795---ridisowegifewa.pdf
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/retofitulipak.pdf
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pil5cn6enb0ctbsif95qgap2e9/9338816480.pdf
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/koxikigeto.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1ed.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1ED 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa04.bin
4ea7ca73daf48c78d62d7be1e92444003047db46097bf94f5cdc120d40edd3c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA04 10884 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000112f6.bin
8531ef1fd0b8c00b9bf10861599fc165e6e3d2ddc324412d30fe59f228f38a1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F6 16960 bytes