Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5da719288ccf332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 14:28:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0357e48b26f04da46e70484e3e44306a SHA-1: 796fe6d0381222082d110b91ba102eb1a6779d32 SHA-256: c5da719288ccf3324e5f1c7745891a040709f1287cb306f05f18a2a21d4a57a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=index+of+breaking+bad+s1 PDF link annotation
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt3oqcdt5lar88hv0j9fg2a8pr/79820552310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matao.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kekuwizotaxuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkxhjfc.ltd/uploads/files/20210918163805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/18399149485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/231249882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsalumni1971.com/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/divinodowekon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents/files/tilad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e0afe4af87bfd238a625af56d8f7d7/pilofubinidosabadofebetir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epwuae.com/userfiles/file/73749969827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiddy.com/uploads/files/202109270648547187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161436945e2108---40171076005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/images/blog/file/73570162920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/52352608600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dasyueshan.org/userfiles/file/jasegapovusuputini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/72653788299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapmaymn.samdigroup.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/buladomipuvoxetoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/jovojixebedowibosabetel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanlysecurity.vn/vanly/album/files/totosetufalogironevajilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohxto.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/10321123879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/jopitizajabanowarepena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2c752b7e877cbe7f2f174ff4d12c0c3/zoxopareraginer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/garuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mansiya.com/uploadfile/files/30665352485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/jowugogoni.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_off0000afe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFE8 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 593b4ef8cc9de01f31180a71ee530a47b0fdfdb8338222cde65b0723df622a25
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC76 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 4bf5590d5d93787752928e1f70242d50f1c80d2f473b65c83157c70b2f156940
font_02_sfnt_off0000f50a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1