Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 254e5d08702d8b90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 13:18:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: af7f81f7f442d712c60513f192204c93 SHA-1: e2ab62faef2fddd0392ae68affdfaffe5bfee2fd SHA-256: 254e5d08702d8b90c2eea3953fe57e7ccf21a67452ee351e7c7c3183934a1901
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 0.9976

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vhlcentral+answer+key+spanish+2 PDF link annotation
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mm53kv9o7h2s6jc4kts2jst0ie/17148940737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kund-in.com/userfiles/file/19693414564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d7286cdedf3aaa9d0fbd85a44e3bbd0/lorozolapusisivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulanjina.net/upload/files/loximubuxosoturupeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antae.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/25334637163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dae8803520beb54fdf90769c7f816d5/zujaxifalojonanudutesido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607509a75c849---togekigipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210614210657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tapaxokuxujavesisogaxaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04e5aa74bc---vulizenuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/761670975f5302a88033e4a35d702a9e/10081530627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/sewoxalabefezagexami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5sbmkncnhqeg64a58tpvcvrk8/wegajemezebikolovutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a298565f07d0ecfa13ce62fc4e8d4b18/80118089628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olmhp5lln3k9t6muifkvs8p024/xumulunapilokagala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021060715084080554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095186dd6800---10231283049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3cd4db54f---90684922399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/630826e17bd3a01a940ab2cff099aef3/puvudojimivogedatawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6dfbdf2565---78384258261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/36625378875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6c5b5c4ae---tazavuwebisaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3ac41c519b---47875231563.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_off0000f08a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08A 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 87530e525a07de574b5abc2e16404f44960de035f6818d4a24fbeecda686f379
font_01_sfnt_off0001094a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1094A 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 1512b392c3c4b175a0841dd60e0d7103be694838496e0da45d78fca947f85a47
font_02_sfnt_off00013599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13599 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1