Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5b2546849f21a99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-10 05:11:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 646e526f2f9f52f2e7801641a369575d SHA-1: 11429a2c7daf9a3bb9aa19e846fe197ad351810e SHA-256: c5b2546849f21a999fbe81e7acbae1689acf9ad871563f79021fc03db7aac883
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports the conclusion that this document is part of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+11+giveaway+free PDF link annotation
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68787b314d2bb24ba283a50812712e9a/51244389943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a22e50af06---sotepoxudufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omprintandpack.com/userfiles/file/26581752306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidoxowatezagerev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/56900078177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130581d85291---42636821086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxateratejelamamusupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janjoling.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13790787867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://first-group.kr/ckupload/files/58938887438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356c060ca11---sanule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fskyok.com/uploadfile/files/74650384883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/rogidasubifidixalute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62431970999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/78431734393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mekongtransport.com/upload/userfiles/files/94479021885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/5715112662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatename.com/uploads/files/202109010554094763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311d1c10305---27706787232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/wolozabesutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-nora.com/userfiles/file/95504284825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/liwuvipakuvamezonoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayjack.com/upload/files/62137189410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/mokugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96344701174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.db-ynox.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varevimejokogup.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_off0000dc93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A5 19588 bytes
SHA-256: 24fb1e8ca489c4371cc6550509d2e19cc1e1a10785d51e148547e89b12640644
font_02_sfnt_off000127e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E5 10592 bytes
SHA-256: e17b542112f1788084470b28ed97268c8d40e01cd1f45f417daf3f064a8e767e