Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5d18ce264ad2aa2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:07:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d9b71e8633470804e29c8f1539f4dbfd SHA-1: 4fe6910acfb852fa5aa3c4c2fa872bb69056bfcb SHA-256: c5d18ce264ad2aa2dc0999556d5f1b849247395506ae7aa24fe008e4b340f540
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The PDF structure itself is also noted as a link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=plants+with+high+co2+absorption PDF link annotation
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fec4cb7722---90749423679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/pasasedenekoxage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67e5590adb3024df224a823016ed498a/8702424134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa6739926c---95727396505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23t9nnnb7qg5higlbkp5mfbnro/72275521125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3da23d33dbc10505e122931330012bf/pakuvagupugaguluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rn5mc2a2ftqgm61hbe9nbcj45o/56190139324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b613cf29826---wotunune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/giteteritur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42a4815470---wevomezopexedolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qka6mis5g1l1nlic8j50ha2fd/bavoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74fd56619b930e50ed818f5adcb03253/6324110898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad6ce203f3c7721a1a2804721f1f6986/96502694925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/39844380820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totounited.com/contents//files/23811072517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084658269068---66639287113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75fb532bb2---21758183369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16203718724525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cea50a15b14d89ac9170354f4781e383/33780549736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8033f5ce71d25ac7303f97124a020e3/tevelametufuvofoviwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/67698020470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63254472a4d24349ef318c358c954981/foserujoxirewezupafedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29f0b3696eee77d2d6bcfc4d53fd02f4/fowixafelikobijozevubikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e4b9420c2---54199946690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000105fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E12 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 675c043dc6822ff9e9aa81584cc78d1c77855564a8146108173b0e762c54a962
font_02_sfnt_off00013705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13705 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 6f907a969982f7db10d808fa65d92b9e76d9b997f81d9aabeaa503592b7e1739