Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5c7b39b3ede8106…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:18:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fe82a659cf18aaed050ec9272c36756e SHA-1: 169b3737ef919fb5170c3d68989373bdadc1af70 SHA-256: c5c7b39b3ede81069f03c7d28f858c6987ef2b3afa3c7a8ec644955b482eb84f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://mimpiindah168.com/contents//files/8346222552.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/kijirepalefalawosizidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b44ece379131099fce82e1395aa9f717/nutaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/pobagof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2bbdf7b6geul7ib1vhjsobt8g/lebezijobakikapob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmbpvs47npivvn72brcng0q7u3/zuforefanasukibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35bbdea3a07622b1b8b3e0651d816d2d/savedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/laratisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082009822909---polapufebaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2107bd5f80---84259559397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a27b73d26f649d5612d146639a93dc2/murukedufomafasimofuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608904fe77819---zidisozilisose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/zupasam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2b16b0be16bf2f01ca7c1b4e9b7e31/97335574964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/81655837379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/vatagenejepidubepufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210529_64725A7C749C9910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03a97b15ae---wutexinewapuvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhodeislandalpha.com/clients/56223/File/jakekazujafoletuzevitera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2639c195c4---12116187391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/142fbil81hn4nv1louudgpiq9m/36098003755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onbepa4kng7rofbu35dgcl8n7d/63522410223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/832c678ef81c2b146037e9223ad64fa6/8742573261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkpp4r0pna7t0g2ekaj28morcm/daxororilijigomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchofgodinjamaica.org/app/webroot/files/baxelepuravirako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/53212492683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=amelia+ritter+the+social+networkPDF 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_off0000f87c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87C 18732 bytes
SHA-256: 38ed7b1db89b31b646a5581935827248e6b99b1e51721c8ed6ce07f3443f07a6
font_01_sfnt_off000129ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129FF 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 5e881af2d6e774ff15417c045f9cffb4e69b5f95f50ecfba1830f0889de3992a
font_02_sfnt_off00014246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14246 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1