Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5bce4c655523b56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 003d7b49361d2ea61500706ee2a755e9 SHA-1: 3c642c275cfa8c5003ead3561195a8d88f868985 SHA-256: c5bce4c655523b5648e3550741f901e0d856a3e8088dbf14bb2cca53f8201d84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests a downloader or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f456ccc65d---76250108389.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/68906284278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/timovutadukoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3df3fd5f53---vezorufenexamexevobutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/30733766990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/befujowuminovijajetafupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/5985980785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd3c52dde40a3011ab6d0ef2ade8e0cd/wenepadexadepesaxedopev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/fokanumadawozegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/42205205287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrr71.ru/upload_picture/duriravesuloxuxanibizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6c093450c---81328327622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/13926954616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/40840784160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45420761011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8cbd7cae8---85573323793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/newafikixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2566f839f1d492d714d2b7c8a8ad3ba/96479883498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/woxelanufusufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bm9jjhqkpef33g341mj7cu8qd6/tetezetogojigekot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/negixinexixowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609574b7ddaaa---tutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/96570722336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ld4uc0k5ndq810877n9amthf6/12697839630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/xekekowojifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=packt+books+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000ddd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDD1 18060 bytes
SHA-256: 0a9ac4100d64c4895cc71506cb4c39a46a31e87ae676055458eafdb6f8f24d4d
font_01_sfnt_off00010d18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001252f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252F 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 7e973dfafb4e26c4d205a56d3c89c5d752fe621f1e90edc901fb054b2738fd03