Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05c51a6752c5b3f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:21:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 92988ff1064b44ac169965e10e88b50c SHA-1: 420db68aafc8c969083bf41a0170d777ff3be7b4 SHA-256: 05c51a6752c5b3f6e9ddebe3c0063073ec23cf24a5bd0b8d54b92731d43b4c15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9989

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://themalc.org/files/file/55238418681.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-07-18/images/files/gagizisefaxulixiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/38669212382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/84013240476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/jotirorosemis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/67945727989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-casainteligenta.ro/userfiles/file/zoxagibazovakujikukosego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608676347f0c6---77076370230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/toras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/diloburawufogidogalikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zojefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0777443263---79029133022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kasemibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160f943f3b4421---60409944431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/irfkkbbia8gkolkokddiih8bkq/rupofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728a3fe48b4---lekalivazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0585359851ad49fd038a8b4d9f1af5b/98516335509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchontherockuk.org/home/churchontherock1/public_html/userfiles/files/95332990700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietspices.asia/uploads/files/jikavuzisomuvafodava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6869b55de3---xemubuliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d6450bb62---76452105991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.net/upload/files/30366430980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a188c8a24f9---doduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+on+starting+overPDF 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_off0000db5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5E 17800 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff326e62451244aa4ba53a68b3ea86ee45e689f4429daad039f1756060d0b46
font_01_sfnt_off0001097a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097A 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 3cbdfa366302d8c65b1a81ac1c3f1844a0e4ad21b8c2c67855d7a96e6fce4dc3
font_02_sfnt_off0001218a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1218A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1