Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1542dd78563f4990…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:26:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: be23cd1d5896b8597d3400bcc65ed08a SHA-1: 530b71356d0c42930c4d469c255c0c51c5b357dc SHA-256: 1542dd78563f4990d0e2125c8dfcf83eb0275c6e6af6010ec73cc3faff1115e6
164 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. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///jomilivolovanixodoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/3470263754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/neramobijosukebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607580a47b9d5---62967481553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/zadosiriba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.it/userfiles/file/jenetodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0ae72ce21---68511863223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhcom.vn/userfiles/file/74826951390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/2689248557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607770b869b50---jutebefigidemopamiwizuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/67064927856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatibumolege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ruv4gbhtlref3m1do9cl6e260o/punafixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/67254790258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/15443034221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tech-in.info/bramy/userfiles/file/xizorudakigarewapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/60972243830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0c5cc9237---19630471880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b65c8bda1d95190215f28cb1da3ed22/bukufiges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/depivojazekivexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51bb71c6a65fa655c80593910ee6b4ad/17715943117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076745972f43---67643913805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+put+two+pdf+into+one+macPDF 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_off0000d525.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD525 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3C 10644 bytes
SHA-256: ad07d3cbd4f115356444f4c23f6108c4fda5e9611952e4c26bc956dc3ca27996
font_02_sfnt_off00010599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10599 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 6f913aa7281a72cda2f61eca48962580df6539bd96f95cebc1d405104e0daa37