Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5854b1edef1d841…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:50:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2ba3970dcec042f467bd31a397a671dd SHA-1: a9c3ce18dd1043c6954d3f709e44634cf75231c9 SHA-256: c5854b1edef1d8410ef8da4aaa12667faf98174cccb1fa3fee9dcee8ae6d965d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://www.civilhospitalpalampur.in/img/uploads/files/22242924090.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f32a2b214b---bizevulepulekinuwapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmeasar.com/mmeasarfiles/file/nonivarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dortmundpools.com/contents/files/12872109608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202109171820102696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/54309092499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cnn-logistics.com/asset/files/nuxalafatagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.com/userfiles/file/4757587234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210910103056_kj3g47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8938d2b7091daa7e27bf617b2b5a7b0/texuxiforalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasedonowemibaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iviltra.lt/images/files/jozuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hospitalityroyal.com/upload_files/file/panexorudavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yesilkoyluleriz.biz/resimler/files/lipifibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61974c3c962d23a53c328d2b900a11b7/79171937626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intekcanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63536438859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.cfonewsletter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixarizupaputixedoxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/55910840961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmfnepal.org/userfiles/files/43457080616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/nuruperaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/45880535082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents/files/mibutabitonerebelirabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=good+morning+dirty+jokesPDF 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_off0000bf7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD791 16508 bytes
SHA-256: 19ff91144f6d57476fd74c8d6e29440b5ec2b63e95707b46b3da4817c5f49495
font_02_sfnt_off00010212.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10212 10760 bytes
SHA-256: d5c6db294d0d3e0221a86b9085ec0007ac96f068858d1bd8131deec2152115c9