Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5e423b4748bf99e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-08-14 16:14:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6a8efd6d53744bc208b4c4822b341912 SHA-1: 6910bc68a438c171753e8e8d243015b10b0f646a SHA-256: c5e423b4748bf99e6cc1b29df28761a6b29a252883abfb7a23287becdf6c6304
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, potentially for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/69069504745.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/nedisujekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219be9f147428dd21fc4e1ae336affe1/rubawikatarusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610658bec8c59---nategifalabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c365a5e1ca2---43415766001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050609594873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/32705190965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///zuninis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/95861339167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/rakubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanomax-nsk.ru/images/zujoduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polaryachts.com/res/wysiwyg/file/tuluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/82076468416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/tipusoxasimezaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e95c0abba26---70161045547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150104_124631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/60925107394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/47848414085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46286732637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94956103656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabbleanddesign.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/zoripobamekopupozetozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmgec.com/Uploadfiles/files/xajidebapibadomuvatolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cf8965228---jobomaluganefeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pebopapunibimago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=5.+s%C4%B1n%C4%B1f+an%C4%B1ttepe+yay%C4%B1nlar%C4%B1+t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e+ders+kitab%C4%B1+indirPDF 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_off0000f271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF271 19560 bytes
SHA-256: 96a4080893e1590b261e3929c726c08954a36d137c94132ba8d3df57fa7ee999
font_01_sfnt_off00012164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12164 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001397b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1397B 11256 bytes
SHA-256: e119a58e74a737b546e83b8994591183b7a33aa686b9512097f6cb006141d81a