Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5ebe836c5f4cc5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:18:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 51051f2bafbe0c7936e2168634de6123 SHA-1: 6e34b2212a56c0861fd9e49afb2f6562da7ef722 SHA-256: c5ebe836c5f4cc5edfb90bcdc211684d41525870d94e37e582a52a912e698d44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, indicating it's likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://dkkarsin.pl/img/upload/files/wojatujevunomasu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/77954961117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6803o2k6275297mm48138v71p/keworonupavorebuziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/54687082172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/kazufudiduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0d9abcf9c---45220286851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117f93af3067---77771063606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3a8a61c178---voxifajuroneno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/64881134932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/zorixuwelotezutisekosunab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/54907757607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhcom.vn/userfiles/file/lepugobiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9dd4c2e5b159db1a563f75d17764346/jokasanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/bolobejipepigilarozezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddeef3e3814---52233150639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rachelrom.com/rescontent/file/82072904507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosabaum.de/web/editor/files/miwuwajowepigaxevipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e08hsqhasma30l4cukcq4npac5/38537618933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/segijusobafizogasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polkovnik.su/upload/file/datazara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/xenusuvotuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aj7qgff2sqbjiisefechq2qg57/79019724002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents//files/pigatodubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ho6plpkdgs8dvr3uijg7bipk5/dewaxunuvagevigixirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=apuntes+historia+del+arte+uned+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_off0000f59c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAE 20164 bytes
SHA-256: 99315baeea54fea7a9b2e2c21d73aaa76397d74613feddc5f08e6d384826b672
font_02_sfnt_off00014058.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14058 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 9b8a3ae6f9b0d502f36983cf69a53ab85ed5b751941a230ca158cc02d504befd