Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5e4bd4dc8cdb83f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 15:01:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: efc54f5ed8d5b32f5d1c098eb1ee8287 SHA-1: b8a1118b87130d22c9e96f3e00ed95c6ccf9d90b SHA-256: c5e4bd4dc8cdb83f5394c93c69b7f197694a125085be6a88abb67921d5d520f1
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into installing malicious browser components. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware delivery tool.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p0ofpu672fkcc4odmj65thb7k/97275662699.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/kajovividufetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/jewefenomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/lekobogusabivewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liqaa-lb.com/files/userfiles/files/38420788221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7b64e302522095268aa795130667589/tijizigikomifejuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibaco.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bovefugazedezovaxeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aramlasmerok.hu/uploads/file/nipirutewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicissiapiemonteisa.it/userfiles/files/42906788597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136387a993da---zakude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61007a5b885c6b30538ee5fba79bca60/86657099467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lngpetro.com/userfiles/file/77921085763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390a2760ef4---91957429777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunglenguyen.vn/upload/files/0dd4d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k9careclinic.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/gurejefiledupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/44948549546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/51716792708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/tozokezolifekawolafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxbotanika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62808841165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d1728c598---65317620778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agppi99.pretty-match.com/upload/files/95853666752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dutakezukenarogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/75423904624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/26363445869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/1996992532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fs+14+game+download+hackPDF 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_off0000db43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB43 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 423ee1e081a5eff15e451277ce595dc55d4247eba25d6c658391f4651fc78dbb
font_01_sfnt_off00010a2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2B 10812 bytes
SHA-256: a54096b11897df679a0618381ccaa4ae4b2d57371c044e17f3582c3f45ecbce0
font_02_sfnt_off000122d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1