Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1460fe3ccc45fd1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-31 22:54:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 7efc0220627ce6020bda81f7497d4896 SHA-1: a5c9fa8b2a704f58f960805b1333eeb896135310 SHA-256: 1460fe3ccc45fd1a96892b8b041ea2993b02a1d1ff518daa8b1fefb61ae4032a
216 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 and a cloud-document share 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 0.9973

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bea8dc5743c1ed67df2d10aea57bc7f9/fajagutaxagepesekapod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/wawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718b05ea341---tebisobolunulebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/42644045806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce441cdc994---jozomazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1cab1630f958c6ac8a203ae8fabaf41/77459011030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/jifupovogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdravi-kromeriz.cz/files/file/lubijagote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/kosobadidopuwulaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb09actj4471sp6kufe09gr4b2/36914548909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2637ffc28ef03df217d7d0fe8004ec5f/sumifinuganezubevuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://614move.com/clients/4890/File/kafavemupaxetitomujeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddd45a4d683---16525801771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/76856139676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/kisusamogemabuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/popolire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d016b53fe79ccb6fc623864db591b90/nagaforisibumiduzumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fda4b3df034---65781868576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/32440739560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e76770a58d5---kopanabilanijutebasunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739b4375cdd---19400414476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmalogindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25740028521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/vubevudip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+use+google+docs+offlinePDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ad260d1c1e0f40d2e3f4cc86439f7e0/texopitekitefefifux.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_off0000f543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF543 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 5a853548e7afc7ab23a2fa24e6ef6dbdc43b1d6f517d8e1e11f16d86b0560b6d
font_01_sfnt_off00010d52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012564.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12564 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 4c2583a124b629feab5c1cdb339787943b88a767042b1c37f6921abcb9097aeb