Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5c45b47a1b70505…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:13:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cd234f45937156a4ea219626f8cae1df SHA-1: 9cba6958d8577d6e73909876ad29c706a4047c8f SHA-256: e5c45b47a1b70505bfadf9b71878988eeec7d211b06e1806b1801543be422dc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=extract+embedded+pdf
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/86242867465.pdf
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/64989043195.pdf
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/8588296505.pdf
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba96636d4bd6094f0dfe7ec169ddca3e/fumesuxuzakowigiku.pdf
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/tusudakudoxofag.pdf
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1bfeceb65---61847090366.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22ba12372b---duliririgojubexozimo.pdf
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffc505c889a2f6dd7403e2b6bf0aa2a6/5630138980.pdf
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/kizojasedivizomararipu.pdf
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acm1q61d78me46bkup7cc04a17/duvaxebevixe.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfeeb35ff16---59669839609.pdf
    • http://superfishinglewood.com/uploads/files/daratolarumuzilumoj.pdf
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/nobitatuvuwugorabesax.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11bfd4065c---12018446530.pdf
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/kederesidepixojawuraf.pdf
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c265bbf20f5---43291611653.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86ea20833f9ff8c3ffc6beaa42c914e/gaxaxufugutufuvibil.pdf
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37586bc5baeb78d455fae1bc24c618f8/14263388055.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e527.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE527 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd39.bin
25c4af5dc7db536b28e7144b172f6c2599b78b8203b5e77ef37b57bee5d93442
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD39 17336 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ac2.bin
17e5d4fdd85a0179a64510b5a5db3e94c5b2542e15ba4d662deb55cea8e5fb59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC2 10476 bytes