Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc5400cb0889ea70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 18:05:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: bf69f2748e6cb92c95d35742331cc274 SHA-1: 028cd4541ce0a7285dd47269ae1609f79391e8b9 SHA-256: dc5400cb0889ea70735f12795584692323aa588a0f8631021c1df36d5d60cdde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+caledonian+club PDF link annotation
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9021fb04d6d7e8af2b1972ae80fdbd6a/17618624690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/tibomunexawowowipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/jazojetajatitibumoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0403bfe44---ragotudafogekonelora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4d98abc1c---50372136111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67367b0d1c---25068011220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbd7be2b74f---98222421251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/kamate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.vn/uploads/files/70153327944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q23h97is4d2sd744kjajrjfgk4/71459632149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/getekikikoxaligumijir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/16962907999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f06b20900---duzasobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d62bbcdb0---26589822357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/vejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd25c9c53b---15280345598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9bfe7c048---95688472510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/84314756530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalufidas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca4f7d98f2c38776655655e825cc7b3d/kefobuvemidujevumovukiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/fofexazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/55964611259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12741 10304 bytes
SHA-256: a4f5e9f9bd89307c3213d77610b40813adccd5884f2790e2be73e415c24b089a
font_02_sfnt_off00013e4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E4C 18968 bytes
SHA-256: 87a05df2bcde50e3b1961f26869ce010b67df56732af1097cda41c11da2342f5