Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5354ed272fbf399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 21:37:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e6bffe286ca137767af206e249baa6cd SHA-1: 43ce1c0ae3d429d9389fa603ae258df8ec675e3a SHA-256: c5354ed272fbf3996794c9ed4f62e43a3a3a5423d55ef5152db639317a50fc65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+100+gems+in+dragon+city PDF link annotation
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613979aa2edb2---98435735974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenphat.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/56240389174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levotst.com/uploads/files/vuzotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetruck.gr/images/file/35839348086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/pubiwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/tekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_138DD5AAB44598A8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///dexafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/95572924312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/876b58805a2613462539b0fa610dcb16/gegejapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icareonline.net.au/ckfinder/icare/files/31796724308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.com/app/webroot/img/files/48265129899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngusacdon.com/upload/files/68475217053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/tefiwojetofilimowejujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologadamczak.pl/userfiles/file/rewunilexusasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/37223961281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebb64b890b---goridapamonofumirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1960546895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/54271697989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/lagudedovetiweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/kemitupiwigelirafajimafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c129d53d6---kitatavuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.habitat-morvan.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekawetamisixaxerapite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gowowdeli.com/uploads/files/63252565559.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_off0000dac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC7 18416 bytes
SHA-256: c3221251a70e48f4c3af3ce1524921eb4ffca9ecbc50bead0b2305a626125a85
font_01_sfnt_off00010a2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12246 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 751e3f1f1c511143020c34e89b1f7d8dae45e82ef9d6bd5e8ab8333890afc332

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