Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5990cbe4391ea99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 04:28:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2b0700d4d5f281b86ea03a8589a30059 SHA-1: a10dd45956fdef733cb6657944454dcc893e73f0 SHA-256: c5990cbe4391ea994a828d35bc46859b9b821e2e2c5d783150fe1454ba0d9fec
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure suggesting the user install a browser extension or update to view content, a common social-engineering tactic. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The document also contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm used for distributing malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq7vesuqi1l2dqki0u8k232hn6/marizuvozepuzeji.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/21073631381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba9d1cd16b---lexajurodulejuzazusiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/zoxadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/26994784817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/jimunute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/56905607413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/46208293293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/tetofexokisebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b7caea065fac1efbd1b729e42fac7a/kefujidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fd353d71edc3025f3eb93f2b82c3be6/89699709526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92032297836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/dixifidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86c79ef93d---24042719550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b598113adfd3ae9b9c26c13cb003fca/kodafogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098092caca33---mozedala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1f2442ef1d1a9a7c2bef76644f2bd1e/58308981238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a839582ad45---tiruruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6fb2e2f61e---2811300600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096347f2bd5a---pemukubebaxatanarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apotekatia.ba/fajlovi/3270013230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/40193544712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9557e0ccf23045e55abc7e5db5136b62/posotomasateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/xokaluweriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+save+as+pdf+in+iphonePDF 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_off00010a29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A29 17284 bytes
SHA-256: eb1e9b7286902d10c349d8074f0938f7a4613df38b79dbb3cc338a6a4e31c44b
font_01_sfnt_off00013776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13776 10592 bytes
SHA-256: d498e3da1f260dbac13ceda335e291e06a569d998b4419a72c5511539ea14cab
font_02_sfnt_off00014f9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1