Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d316b94385dc46c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-08-27 07:37:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5aa13fb266b103375ca025e6ff02223c SHA-1: e80042da1b64de685bf60284f053cb0631a0c7a3 SHA-256: 0d316b94385dc46c2d4f793fe8ef9a5d6d0a245c6619059520b9fb8533143a0b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a fake browser/software-install lure. 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 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/57646894348.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860b5d2bc4d---kusogiruwiwitug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/10160101862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c76e3cb4d611ba5ec43ef83e37c961bd/42427217409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vleek.com/uploads/files/3151371733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysolutions.it/uploads/assets/file/panegelilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/kasapabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trexanh.net/upload/files/12271736073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/mipinulinamamivufetegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/16319399884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elandtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210708_DA6DB873685507BA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f1448d9b31fe410484a11680b97e510/rikutopoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/riwagexasiminufara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/91831588426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1243eeb39cb1323f40fa7f9fbc44fdd8/xirebifaburibafaxetefebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7b723efdfd494b66cebef4fc628cbbe/97955951575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapuxuwigusumolakewezewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0hfqp2jat2s7lr32f7gef28iu/jeturajosovote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deforma.it/userfiles/files/18155710430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/rujifebuzovapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiastudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76666372015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinxedien.net/upload/files/fumunine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021061310222139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///gugerewesoputirajejexator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trans-serwis.com/userfiles/file/tobovabixexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=affidavit+format+for+change+of+date+of+birthPDF 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_off0000d476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD476 16404 bytes
SHA-256: 2674750c7943a44ca6dc8f24303bf8f3c4232c421068909b250fb4f616c41725
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF00 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 727d24d6051598def40b93ca210ddbcdd132f4fe45f1a3fbc969e07f047c17ca
font_02_sfnt_off000117cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1