Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5dbb12c697717aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 22:20:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: be57e1af855a9403306adf92e1c884a7 SHA-1: ea07ab8131d5afe38b0410b9034a57a29cca1fcc SHA-256: c5dbb12c697717aa561e6087a96017aa141e2200c61031dee0830ce5cdc81498
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs, while some are benign, are part of a larger pattern of redirection to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/lulitapurawibexufodoku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37v2u104njb2aucjrtjq4gp8i2/tedezuzoxegamukudesogevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37837126094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/65807560019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/wububosorekibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45659011096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangyi-pump.com/uploads/file/081111135204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/vufiwidabezar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibshospitals.com/userfiles/file/29826790424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arhive.np-sp.ru/img/file/22354411097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d11e2d7078fb51158b49e61d2139fd7/xigexebigokuwenipirefitik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72854256416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/gulofonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/90997779658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/94267662998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/37909242421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/tamelipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97vlkdkphrbobl74njme7k1esj/49939878490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/67215602429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafittipng.com/userfiles/files/vajedinote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c02cb8dbb9aa26519e9762646eb19e4/86013758393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kriosispl.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48344197639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/33653166381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/gejaxinusutavoletovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=come+trovare+una+password+wifi+con+androidPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a4943a88d7863313c9748d72ea79c86/tiwetukupoxe.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_off0000d62e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD62E 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 978bd88340626848d585460ca93a726e6255aaa923faf3a01472e8c8daa0b6a2
font_01_sfnt_off000103f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C07 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 4feba4758af86b303143b69eb250caf7838c35cc7d943adc583da497518f5b92