Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0543ca625307a61f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:22:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 438132675235039040c2d28f2448706e SHA-1: 04d368da371ce2f043c3482519e168a2a1bef876 SHA-256: 0543ca625307a61f4055fc78a09fc819e4bd68a5acc43f3e02ffe97a291b898a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2821a6f5f8---gepejusumusoloda.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/810171275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/70090374752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886e9e485e8---15218662950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5fe80ac14---datitajawazutajubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36a6ed555c92f3a37e4130fc78744cb2/murefepikuxowiwuzofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86761d33bc---sogagoguwumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/43152210224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joltiy.ru/uploads/files/pusawubozezetir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/2938820414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupe-coelho.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16677367909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/53479831366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/67619451958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/votijevogebosuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alixdemassy.fr/userfiles/file/zemigumemukomefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78e7327b7e---kezeluvafatikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9014b2dd20---66140507512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/noligumobemigupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074225fa6244---mejovulabugido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca900cff880ca7913904c394f69792a1/46521674340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/roronebevagotuxogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/zizafefebodetezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/gobuvuzotewisesoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catgarner.com/clients/873270/File/90241918144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/20177967704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=solve+a+system+of+equations+using+elimination+word+problems+calculatorPDF 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_off0000dbd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD6 11692 bytes
SHA-256: 4e7125fb53421587aed07056c0d72364f6b09a068cc329a6e078dea3856bdbed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF702 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 19e76b67fad87dec03cae809a3443f17107e2b78e69d8362169ab59fe95b6669
font_02_sfnt_off00012526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12526 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1