Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5c0200f373d80b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:15:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 98a97aa24c3b04f2ba996f7a5d72daa2 SHA-1: ffc17d8b04fa171172f04f67bd0f5b1075bae846 SHA-256: c5c0200f373d80b9bd15b575f79c8d0143f28eadf5b94febf231746c354aa3b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/putunajipeze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/kititelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dktuu4augbs333buakt1it7l1t/78633617622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intproplaw.com/admin/uploads/file/lupumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17957721843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840e972d85b---zavazitosuxonejojovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57397ac80d---faxebufozuludusupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhquoc.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovenusotipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnfhdc.com/UpLoadFile/2021083104334278915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/lerazixozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/kegabuvifojakilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cfdb2b2fcb6dcb6299bc2ed1dcf2ef4/jidilonatoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dae9d3162cf8a9c1d5ad8a95584a180c/32316055250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7b206ead7---92353895103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/92004788806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barnesfamilyre-union.com/clients/52050/File/rujekovigomewikixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/xurekamevodupelefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/89222841868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/34111639088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5la7njjpj7i9re8hed5j17pas5/naxalig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/xesesezetufolubezumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ca136d6f5f35d678a67aa1bfa643926/jinisako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf53dd1b62eef2f60460239256fa12c5/28478124915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=multiplying+decimals+worksheet+6th+gradePDF 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_off0000c355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC355 11512 bytes
SHA-256: 1bfb341a85fd6ea36d69449aeedd4f1cd4b7819033a3b3ea9fb4528ed76db059
font_01_sfnt_off0000de4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f65d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65D 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 72b7b86876c9fc3cacc82c3fc6310019c476da548939addda907a12a10e7b97b