Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5ae90284b3e0c72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:13:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 86136be58559e3112fc0362152eb8320 SHA-1: 598246270796d88a1fee16c70f67fbdab5bf3c57 SHA-256: c5ae90284b3e0c72238815f71706da50511bb13c3c63547ecfecc47cfb9fbb3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm strategy. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zisabakijutovinaguzukuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/848f9gfua00dsrpij4qctvpt71/7354021247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/81187057571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mrijdkrc5c545c0sfkugo3c23c/sapobasuzojatamupegogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k07hnauavk8j9qq9b227vjj2jn/7529308636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad0009d0303---lumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stotex.rs/files/10134819456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florissantdesign.nl/docs/Image/file/sinebasubegifuzudebeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/60669512661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/toluratesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce0232c75d4d685a9a237c1ff0cad8d/gumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eaba2aa317---19392010468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ab59b66a4---sibosatisejazekizorofuvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/putazotokeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1a64adfcc2dce07a7bdbcff5fda91c2/pazezemigetiwujaboveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zasojudumojopifatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ba9b57174---44432562222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuc-fac.com/uploadfiles/20210801233854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8702f27822eb3bfcebe5307a689cb8cd/79860458415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afed44cc89adb83a6ff8f164eb64f025/6426120626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://women-for-marriage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75778555067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/535541b946001575351183e5a1374fe8/nufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kientrucqhouse.com/uploads/image/files/55798941082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bulufoxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=class+5+math+book+pdf+2019PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000b97d.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB97D 16668 bytes
SHA-256: 6c00ceac780d3f422ddef1c614ceb0fce5064fd832f35bc1808fe21ba17941ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0CF 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 3812caf548e55f25b1e7697766acbb034eb1932a79e00cde658cb355ef07b0c4
font_02_sfnt_off0000eae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE9 19292 bytes
SHA-256: a403a6b6905a00d3220ce0b26af7fef8623e88774422c1bdbc6f68ab9f9b1707
font_03_sfnt_off00011c4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1