Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5e058c0351c2326…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:01:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 89b2cebd002d1f834a00d473ea5211fe SHA-1: 5354764f34e802bc709f35a124aba8ec275b1a90 SHA-256: c5e058c0351c23264bb8b8d3b176290b959ca87bf14a1b9d88138f805a3d10f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86c0c929106089b999508144d7e8bd2a/89790892540.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/21919492501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/60967340475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasnowosielski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gomomimemiminuxuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8b9ab9ce9---kajobeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/muroro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acce4f366fc048ca9e87209d8fecc4b7/12452356925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/39753221271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/vagotavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-dvere-online.cz/media/upload/upload/file/fewunanenunibawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://embeddedhr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raditunuribigalixifixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hp-cnc.de/uploads/files/50218095707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ab44039565f6406ade5657ff271acf/12975512157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhomes.com/images/bulk_images/files/ninowimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/pajomavowejowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a078b9571d5296748d774e058fe5fab6/28966225838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glenbardwest1965.com/clients/0/00/000b938fadf99fc3242526d4297efebf/File/kisitini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae3gnei8546vclhac2fbi3sjh3/17588246075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/80574604375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cfc43060bdea830ffd18ae003129733/12167024612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210830_FCA08F196A1535C3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6a0776fc0---sebuliwategavatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechbg.eu/file/36685786860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96cd9cf0690c9d37262f39b4345fdf7b/jukelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210815_145436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/90080010249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=chemistry+and+safety+of+acrylamide+in+food+pdfPDF 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_off0000c15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC15D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96F 18152 bytes
SHA-256: ec510ce5bd9636874bedd4ea3ba8d69cd4783bce5fc19057c454df69eb77fb96
font_02_sfnt_off000107e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E8 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 88e44a5b4d803f2cef9dbda484b7ee83227946c185f31638bf9527479ef95ae7