Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5f7aed60643b614…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 20:09:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5ddaef1e48bf5222a017fce018d440d3 SHA-1: 84599e03104dfd7d64c989398651d84b0bc65ef1 SHA-256: c5f7aed60643b614c17ec3abfea2f7427d0b7876a0a3cdd62d718cef0336a653
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/gidibiviz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f25b651f87d---62872535273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210605054955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789784eda77---81590584527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dac7b0997fb---dadixirik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5i24oadl29bce0srhe8q2ng3q/18545383436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/mosibapak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52u92ld7aiiivq30hgduc6qof4/40657072258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c432a6d2fd6---65944527988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a809196ce01---93774833545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7e9212391---fedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/subozafonaferif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6bc966680---47454538253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f77b9424351---5418732501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bristolvietnam.com/upload/ck/files/dipuxivefezowutopalidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/634893cf8c6ee5321e4e2f2514db1b1d/85330341495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonkertrail.org/clients/9/92/9260a3c387aed4615f72c72c3a1da295/File/69209921031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/jarofimafufemilebumanezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://share-world.tw/userfiles/file/26171832674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b302573a758---72346183228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/19198456181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/69516203141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/57512485379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=character+traits+alphabetical+listPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF029 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001083b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1083B 16556 bytes
SHA-256: 701f7b80c02e09d66e37dd33648b209fad7f8b50eac74b815df4d70679a8148d
font_02_sfnt_off00013300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13300 2048 bytes
SHA-256: 21f9df20f227e8d8e40da5b43cfddd00bf1dede15ca1231093bca9ffa6c49901
font_03_sfnt_off00013c5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C5A 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 0c3276715344361195289c8a16545980b6404fcb564e5a5e80d9f6abbcff9ab3