Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5dc664f8d1fc28c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:26:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cefee364c883b34250b2fae69dc3841d SHA-1: 355569c15f377f04615396bc660c625e2eb05d4e SHA-256: c5dc664f8d1fc28c489960e306c1923566cbc673f1c24240160024581b268be7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely to host or redirect to further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially track user engagement with the phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=warframe+how+to+build+trading+post
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fcc9b5570---99716248598.pdf
    • http://ipceurope.com/assets/file/70883829702.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982bbd52867---26290311777.pdf
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2nluu608bc1ok90j5jqsalrm3/50634691600.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009cf50b43069cc4f12a4765fccbc549/17742916317.pdf
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eff0d3bcfa9f3c4c4c439a43a2126b95/donenuvebu.pdf
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4752632b52---zosomaworax.pdf
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c382407a5bd38b368cb196b5e275dc/buwifodoju.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d5be81139---jelasigexovegabezisimex.pdf
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/pobewifapomigi.pdf
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/26603775509.pdf
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33837dfa6f1075db0f111de035dfb3f4/nizijojipegibunumuwigo.pdf
    • http://goopenapp.com/uploads/files/bezipuxudijabomapirazewo.pdf
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37jfmc4crjlkoh8ohrhlrdtc04/wewukujotima.pdf
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/63996427233.pdf
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/lakogevojo.pdf
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/tilotulima.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080eb47975b7---30719701152.pdf
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/femozakezapirodegadabugo.pdf
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/76797821892.pdf
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/12379439900.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4fe9a376c---38929574074.pdf
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdb1bcde3e---rorigalivomam.pdf
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/61256406312.pdf
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/lupitatisabogakufar.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014608.bin
754fe53f640be7504989142b68aa763e93ec0155f206ae86c1641853437e8f49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14608 17268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001736f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1736F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00018b86.bin
e7b589e15494db6e53f3a8ed798fdfad01ea4746c9319bb0f6c48760e0df1c84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B86 11264 bytes