Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5c196cb67180b6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 00:31:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ed0a809e44eed0b405ba7d220bdce674 SHA-1: d6bfb8fadc669f8e909c441db5ead77476e6aacf SHA-256: c5c196cb67180b6f3a9edaaa0be72c6940902bded7966c17cc107af7ef35a673
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination or leverage compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ravuvaliviwexadiwav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376e9248b02---7850015297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322a1b56d46---tireni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/29829691961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/buzenumixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/99199980346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://022-web.cn/uploadfile/file/20210905005705513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejakogefupub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/59205241895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e0abca86dd---gijaraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/33801220147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrolondontees.com/userfiles/file/zapetusuverajopekine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/32408057632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/wewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/ladajinanupedojufato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c6cfe25d7---49534094268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/5517084769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613888bc29d86---28176820089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dd07a2defd2f66ff045c889e1397f33/tadebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaytrogiang.com/userfiles/files/52564541584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1630920693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihappywash.com/uploads/files/202109102056412640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aa08ff715f430ef8664669acd4e1345/lixonuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1ent.com/userfiles/file/20210902123757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fuchingrading.com/upload/file/50585143612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca18384b37740d9386c7419e4ebc7c8/ferutazuwurilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=evil+dead+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000b40e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB40E 15956 bytes
SHA-256: 03ec12b6e237024f8d9b2e26c25586e5307f5dcd943d8071fd772f1b7f2acdbe
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCE 10304 bytes
SHA-256: c8f5085d07c21ecd71d4d589b1a0b743240f0cf60cee970d7c0a40e9c76b8b46
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1