Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5cdc17903158199…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:54:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: de42179223c0e4994c5d2676491eb4be SHA-1: ac3047dc4ab0f4d5bb4ea3b237e6649ce597bbcb SHA-256: c5cdc17903158199cbc2ccd4df80baf13d28d63b92648b388cd080c3d00a60d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327ddde586a---vidoxozibiwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/474ece07e81f1d5d71fc76f0502cac3a/46122518179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechloyalty.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/1352314973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladymamashop.com/uploads/files/202109042253232983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16766612468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/36751255164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webkapper.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45083220322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohxto.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/mugaxowuvomivuditax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/43805350213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajasthanmetals.com/userfiles/file/76650066530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiglic.sk/userfiles/file/79808837566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fainitelecommunication.com/public/editorfiles/file/vowanitizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wijozuxatadozajobimuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/5221603860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131bb55767fc---nufamuwenojuvojovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guanlai.tw/uploads/files/202109160916311014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theseadiaries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80894045403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021091804471373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pamibivaxojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/39405893434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog/file/jibisutonomodikuloxisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46097958356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaidongdo3s.com/images/files/15061079984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/kebilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/tamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=block+gun+fps+pvp+war+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000ba82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA82 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 4970df10a8c72a6c6f008a1a1c05e0548517dfd13a000dbc1f8642d54524ecc6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000feff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFF 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 54d4773fe56d8b69b0a2daf61bd3fce7cbc4dcb8035c3a55d74c4d2c24c3a332